We hadn't been through the door 5 minutes when the phone rang. I could tell from the look on her face that it was Dad. Unfortunately I could only hear... one side of the conversation."Where are you?" Why are you still up there?" You are joking aren't you? Now when will you get here?" WHAT!" THAT"S NOT A FAIR GO!" DON"T YOU SHUSH ME!" WHEN ARE YOU COMING THEN?" THAT WILL BE NEARLY 6 WEEKS SINCE WE HAVE SEEN YOU." Well I suppose it's not your fault but you had better decide which means the most to. She could see how hard he is working, how exhausted he is every night. She is doing her best to support him but lately she has been thinking that this is not exactly the life she had been planning on having. Something was awfully wrong. She had to do something. She has to do something.On top of that, recently, their sex life has been practically dormant. Harold is too tired after work to even think about making love to her. And the rare Sundays they have are also busy with phone calls from his. "Not wanting or expecting anything from Julie was what Austin added tothe relationship. He was the only person she knew that was glad to justsee her. She liked that she made him happy by just being herself. Itmade her feel better about being who she was than any worthless onenight stand.As Julie crossed the street, Austin thought that was how he shouldpicture her. The smile on her face as she was happy to give a littlekindness to a lost soul, was how he should remember her. He made thedecision. "Fuck you bitch," he answered belligerently."That wasn't the answer I wanted, and as tempting as the idea is, you don't have the equipment for it. So just to prove that I wasn't kidding, I'm going to introduce you to pain, and we'll see what you have to say about that a bit later," Zandra finished, removed control of his voice and induced a moderately high level of pain in the man.While that was working on him, she brought the second man out of his trance. He instantly repeated what the first.