"Did you sleep well?" Is it morning already?" sighed Benny, looking up at her sitting next tohim on the bed in the dark."It's past lunch time silly. I... already worked at the conference allmorning while I let you rest and figured I'd check on you," said Melissa,leaning down and kissing him. "But you can still sleep in another hour orso before we have to get out of here to get ready for your gig." Where are we?" asked Benny, looking around at the rattan beachy-lookingbed room furniture. "This. I may go to a movie and make a few patronshappy or head over to the mall and make some salesclerk's day.Hitchhikers can always get a super ride and cops very rarelywrite me tickets. I have been known to go to the bus station,but that really is cheap. If it was not so cold I could go tothe park. I have always gotten my fill there. I know the peepshow. I bet you have one near you. And I bet you know where itis.Our local adult playground is tucked away under a freewaybridge. I always park out. ‘The operating room is on the third floor but you should wait until Jerry comes. He will keep an eye on you until the sergeant returns.’ He dashed towards the elevator without waiting, pushed the call button restlessly a few times and thought about running up the stairs about ten times before it reached the ER floor and took him upstairs. ‘Are you all right?’ asked the nurse in the nurses station which was in front of the operating room. He was white as a sheet with the blood stained coat. "Great." Luke poured himself a fresh cup of coffee. "Anything you'd like to do?" Emma stared, lost for words. "Um, no, not really." She was still stuck on the fact that he'd asked her out and she'd accepted. There was no way she could have come up with something to do. "No problem." Luke added one, then two, then three creamers to his coffee. "I'll think of something. If it's nice, maybe we can just take a walk." "Sure." The bells Millie had placed on the door jingled as a new customer came in..
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