We started to sway to the music, sometimes moving in rhythm together, sometimes moving separately. This lasted through several songs. Finally a slow s...ong came on and I waited for Debbie to stop dancing. She didn't. Instead she came over to me and put both arms around me and rested her head on my shoulder. She began to undulate, slowly pressing herself up against me until she was clinging to me like a coat of paint. Now I was not just stoned, I was also aroused by the press of her body molding. Barbara was talking to me. I think it was something about the menu and what was I going to order. I never responded. Twice she had addressed me. ‘Hello, Earth to David.’ ‘I’m sorry. I was caught up on something.’ ‘Penny for your thoughts?’ I looked straight at her, moving my face oh so close to hers, and said, ‘If I told you what I was thinking, we may not be friends any longer.’ Over the past few months we had confided in each other on a number of things, from my raising my girls to her being. Like she was a fake orsomething." She stopped to take a deep breath, feeling a bit winded fromher small speech."But now she's gone and broke my son's heart. I haven't seen him like thissince his father died, god bless him... Just please, be here for him. Ifyou can please help my son get through this. No matter what you have todo, please promise me this Charlie."Mrs. Frederick looked into Charlie's eyes with a strong, determined gaze,one the young man had not seen since she suddenly fell ill.. Almost too quickly to be seen he was suddenly down to two opponents as an arm and the hand holding a sword thudded to the ground, severed at the elbow. The man stared dumbly at the spurting stump but Nilsen paid him no mind. He may have remained standing a second or two longer but shock and blood loss quickly rendered him unconscious and shortly afterwards, dead.It happened too quickly for the other two to react, not that they would, of course; they were professionals after all. Well, maybe a.