I fished in my pocket and came out with my little jack-of-all-trades. A multi-tool which has a penknife on it. “I will buy you some new ones.”Sh...e grinned nervously and nodded. I didn’t tell her that I had also switched on my Dictaphone to record all that happened.“OK,” she said and stood with her legs wide, her skirt right up around her waist.. I knelt on the ground and reached up, taking the gusset of the thick woollen tights and carefully inserting the knife. I always keep it sharp and. ” Josh said he was sorry. “You bet your ass you’re sorry. You’re one sorry motherfucker. We’ll go out tonight. When I tell you stop drinking you stop drinking. Got it?” Josh got it. They went out every night for the rest of the week, and Josh kept his drinking under control. Nothing else was under control, but he and Veronica actually kind of liked that. For example, they went out the night of the “dipshit” speech and when Veronica told Josh to quit, he quit. They came in the house around 10:00. She hadn’t been with Tommy, but she had been with Sarah, her seventeen year old school friend, and they had made out including some very heavy petting. She couldn’t tell her Mum that though could she? A lesbian affair was almost as bad as an affair with Tony in her Mum’s eyes at least. Tania wouldn’t normally have believed Sharon, who was known to be a bit of a gossip, but as Emma couldn’t, or wouldn’t, tell her Mum where she had been the assumption was made; two and two made five, and Tania. The five of us would get back together for the first time since high school. However, we would learn that the best laid plans would not turn out like we planed. We were three males and two females, a group of friends from a small town high school. We had been apart since I went to college a year ago. Marian and Allan were the oldest. They graduated first but choose to stay in town after high school. John and myself graduated a year after Marian and Allan. John stayed in town but I went off to.