??????????? While Venus was reading the note, she overheard thebartender on her cell phone telling someone ?she?s here.?? After a few uh huh?sand okay...?s, she hung up.? The bartendercame over to Venus and told her that she had ten minutes to empty the bottleand get her ass to the bathroom.? ?Areyou Deelishus?? Venus asked. ??????????? ?Me? Not hardly.?You?ll meet her in exactly nine minutes once you?ve emptied thatcarafe.? So if I were you I?d getstarted.?? With that, the bartenderpoured the. Iknew that this was the end of my friendship with Elaine I would soon bedismissed from her home in my reputation at school would be ruined. Notonly that, my parents would find out about my tastes and I would beostracized for my family. At these thoughts, tears began to run down myface. I took a gamble, and I lost. I was unsure how to proceed from here.I began packing up my things for the inevitable dismissal from my formerdear friend's home.Elaine asked, "What are you doing?" I explained to her. He scrutinized the label. ‘Scrapple loaf! This smleck has been sitting in a warehouse since twenty-one eighty. It’s probably left over from Octavia.’ “Your own fault, Alvin,” Harley said with a grin. “If you had come with me you could’ve gotten something better. Them privates in First Platoon are eating better than you right now.” He laughed again. ‘I doubt it… the crawler had to go through all of Ten Division to get to us. The only way I can eat this stuff is if I try to pretend I’m eating. She says but I know something's not right.The next day and she's not home by 5. So I tried calling her and got no answer. I left her a message telling her where to meet us and headed to the restaurant. I got there and Ted and his wife were already there. Ted introduced me to his wife Jan.Ted and Jan meet almost 4 years ago and we're married two years now. They are expecting their first child in another four months.The evening was fun, reminiscing about old times but at 9 o'clock and no word.