People would never believe anyone that went to her school lacked the resources to pay for college. The annual tuition is just under twenty-five thousa...nd dollars a year. Harvard is under thirty-thousand a year. Plus, Jessie and her father have been shit on by people all their lives. Now her dad can stop putting over half of each paycheck into a college fund for her. They can get a better apartment. I made sure I paid her estimated income taxes because at least one of the others working there. “So what do you want to watch?” he asked.“I don’t care” I said “anything sounds good to me”“Okay how about a scary movie. Let’s watch dawn of the dead. That one always scares me”I just shook my head yes, not sure what movie that was, but up for anything new. He grabbed the movie and crawled across the bed to the other side to put the movie in the player. He stayed knelled on the bed as he worked, and his bare feet ended up by my head. I couldn’t help but lean over and smell them. They smelled. Stella took a quick glance out to the kitchen. They could not see her. We both just stood there for a few seconds and then she crooked her finger at me. Holy shit! She wanted me to come over by the doorway. The only reason I hesitated was my wife and her husband were sitting twenty feet away. Stella kept smiling at me and waved me over again. I walked over to the doorway. She never stopped smiling as she placed one hand on my bare arm. We were looking at each other with what I can only imagine. He said that he would be transferred to the hospital where I worked the next day and, if he continued to recover well, would undergo a triple bypass operation. That, in addition to a change of diet, would probably take care of the problem.By the time the doctor left we were all feeling better. Nina came over to my chair and gave me a hug, a tight, squeezing hug of gratitude. Her mother watched this impassively, not saying anything."Thank you, Bill," Nina told me when she released me. "You saved.
Read More