So, I continued to visit the arcade as often as I could, weekends, evenings, whenever I had the time. In order to visit the arcade I had to buy $3.00... in tokens to feed the video machines. Since I walked to the arcade on the weekends I would find tokens along the road that guys had thrown away lest their wives or girlfriends find out where they'd been. By picking up the tokens along the road I would have an extra $5 to $10 in tokens after I bought the $3 at the video store. Sure extended the. Most evenings, Kallie made a point to hold me all night. When she didn’t, Rose was much too willing to accommodate me.****With three female dancers, all wishing not to get pregnant, for different reasons, we had three scrip’s depending on the lady involved, to keep them in birth control or Plan B Pills or 2for1Shots, such as Lily and Rose were now on. It meant occasionally stopping by a Walgreens, dropping off a copy of it, to get what we needed. I even gathered up a few three-paks of different. One thing I'd noticed though was she never brought up her project with me even once after we left the big house in Ridgeline. It was as though it had taken a back seat in her interest for awhile. I knew it was an important thing in her life, so I had to conclude that, for the past seven or more hours, she believed our family relationship was more important than her project. If my conclusion was accurate, then my earlier assessment about Cindy's reasons for wanting to get back with me had to be. I scored a lid through Buddy and his connections, although I had to keep it under lock and key so that Buddy wouldn’t smoke it all up himself. I also kept the boozing under control, not out of some moralistic sense, but because I didn’t enjoy the hangovers. Most Friday or Saturday nights there would be a band playing down in the Rat. I would sometimes hit the Rat weeknights, too. It stayed open most nights until 11:00 or 12:00, for people looking for a place to study and grab a late meal. I.