30am. He explained how he’d fallen asleep on the sofa and Jane suggested he go up to bed and sleep properly for a few hours.Dan woke a number of hou...rs later, he was sure he could hear talking coming from downstairs, Jane and a deep male voice that he couldn’t place. He quickly got dressed and went downstairs expecting to see a friend or neighbour sat chatting, but instead he found Mark sat at his kitchen worktop, drinking one of his beers whilst chatting to his wife. Dan was dumbstruck. “Hi. Joseph was surprised when Jordan told him about his love of Godard and Truffaut and the French New Wave, which led the conversation to the American film noir of the forties and fifties, a topic Jordan was unfamiliar with.After the long slow walk, they arrived at Jordan's house, an older, rundown one story home. Jordan invited Joseph in. He was introduced to a woman in her forties whose once beautiful face had gone pasty and bloated and her once lively eyes had darkened and saddened. She was in. I was still angry and upset. I still hadn't cleaned the make up and I must have been crying myself. I had smudged makeup all around my face. The telephone rang. I answered."Angie? It's Maria. Don't hang up. Please" What is it Maria?" Can we talk, I mean can we meet and talk?" OK" My room number is 507, do you want to come up" I'll be up in 5 minutes" OK, look I'm really sorry, OK, see you"She hung up.I knocked on her room door and she opened it. She, like me hadn't changed or. Over the past year she has been fine we just all figured that she was over it, but today when you and I were in the store, she had that look again. I can’t explain it, but I was almost afraid to leave you in there with her. Now I know why I had that fear. I think maybe you and I should stay away from the grocery for a while.”“Oh Jamie, she didn’t seem dangerous to me, she is just a woman with a crush on you.”“Ok but either way we won’t be getting groceries again any time soon.” He said kissing.
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