Sandy had a long, fitful night of precious little sleep. Her dreams alternated between hot, lustful passions and eternal condemnations from on high fo...r her foray with her son. When she finally decided to call it a night she dreaded what lay before her. It was Wednesday and her day to pick up Jenny and go to the gym. She could call and try and beg out of it, but she knew that wouldn’t stop Jenny from either calling or coming over to find out the ‘latest.’ So begrudgingly she put herself together. Started her morning routine.“Morning Kim! How are you today?” Bill voice brought her back from her musings. “Hello Bill. I’m fine thanks. It’s cold and frosty out there” she smiled nervously. Bill had placed her morning coffee on the counter. But next to it lay the magazines he had picked up off the floor yesterday and next to that was the piece of paper on which she had written her answers. She felt her mouth go dry and her heartbeat quicken. She walked to the counter and picked up her coffee. I turned and acknowledged them with awave."Thank you for being here, Sarah," Josh told me with a smile on hisface. It wasn't a real smile."Thank you for having me," I replied. Someone near the stage burst intolaughter, and I really had to battle to keep from joining him when Irealized what I had said. However, the smirk on Josh's face made theentire thing worthwhile."Sarah has agreed to sing two more songs with me this evening," he toldthe crowd. "I'm so very lucky to know this wonderful. You may use my office to call the credit card company and resolve it.”I called the credit card company and learned that there had been a number of charges on my account over the last 5 days. I insisted that they were fraudulent charges, but the bank informed me that since the charges were “overseas” they would take 10 to 15 business days to resolve. In the meantime they would need to freeze my card. I tried to explain about the vacation but they only suggested that I should have purchased the.
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