With the way things were. Before."Simon moved his hands to her shoulders, holding her so that she couldn't turn around and see his face. He shivered s...lightly despite the shower of warm water. Simon took a deep breath and started."I don't know any other way to do this, so I'll just come out and say it. I want you to come back home with me, but I'm not sure that I can live the way we've been these last few months. I can live with swinging. Hell, I'm just as guilty as anyone when it comes to. Why don't you put the cover on the parrot cagetonight and we will talk this over."I went down to put the cover on the cage and the parrot said "PrettyPolly" as usual."Yeah, that's what I am wearing I said bowing to parrot and opening mypalms so as to show off my legs."Why was I doing this? This is the sort of thing you saw some bimbo doingon the television. Was it worse than I thought? Was I a bimbo trapped ina man's body?Anyway I then went upstairs and Carol helped me to get changed. She. It was late afternoon when I pulled into the driveway at the house and sensed something was wrong.There was a note taped to the back door that read:Jake, Got the report of an illegal hanging around your house. Found her messing around in your smokehouse.Rick“Her,” I said out loud. I ran into the house. “Rosalia,” I called out. Nothing. I ran to the bedroom. “Rosalia,” I called again. Still nothing. I check all the bedrooms and could not find her anywhere. I went into the den, sat on the sofa. ”Cami told me that her friends were on the parking lot now, painting over the old mural on the bus and all we need is a few photos they can enlarge and use as they paint the new murals on the bus.“If you’ll come with us, we can take those photos now, and they’ll start on them as soon as they take the film home, develop the film, and enlarge them.”“Will they have the bus finished by Sunday around noon?”“They told us they possibly could, since both of them use airbrushes.”“I suppose we could wait.