With another roll of film to shoot, Vic was looking for even better pictures if that was possible. It was. Being a Saturday night, his mother had no... ground rules for Vic. That meant he could say he was going over Eddie’s and she would just nod her head and say be home by ten. That was good. As soon as it got dark, Vic and Eddie walked those few short blocks and stood behind a tree across the street from her house. That was the easy part. It took a lot more balls to do what they did the. 2nd door on the left." she said. I smiled as I started to clean the pool. I looked over to see Jade was using the binoculars to check me out. She kept my clothes by the lounge chair. She put her shades back on when I started the lawn mower. She followed me around the back yard with the binoculars. I went in the house to start her bath water. A second later she was at the doorway to her bathroom. "Go down stairs make me a drink. Then come back up. Use my shower over there. You have some baby oil. "I went silent and just kept staring at the wall, feeling numb. I didn't know WHAT to think, how to feel, whether to be angry or sad. After all, wasn't I just about as ready to walk away from her?Adrienne was just quiet as she stood a few feet away, who knows what running through her mind. But after another second, she simply walked over, sat beside me on the bed, and wrapped me up in her arms."I'm sorry, Ben," she said softly and sincerely. "I'm sorry."I just closed my eyes and forced myself. “I’ve got some bad news,” Kyle said as we drove into school one Wednesday morning. It was an unusual day as the junior high had a day off, so we didn’t have the kids with us on the drive. I looked at him.“What?”“I went traveling last night,” he said. “I plunked into Jason’s body just in time to almost get him killed. He was having a tussle with a private in his troop. I hate those fuckers. They were ganging up on his friend, John—did you ever see the Indian he travels with?” I nodded. I.