She was wearing a classy blouse and a skirt that accentuated her long slim legs.Our hostess led us to a table near the windows overlooking Rodeo Drive.... I helped Justine with her chair and then sat down."Such a gentleman!" she teased as we ordered our beverages.She noticed me looking around at the upscale surroundings. "Don't worry, I can't afford this -- my work pays for it." She then proceeded to tell me she worked for a video production and special effects company. Sometimes the studios. ”The combination of child-like lisps, along with the adult words and delivery were very disconcerting.If she’d been an adult I’d have said this child was daring me to try to leave.As in, “you can only leave over my dead body!”We eyeballed each other for a few seconds before I lost.I finally shrugged and turned around and sat down.Now I was the one looking down, not daring to look at “mother” eye-to-eye.“It actually wasn’t a drink but a milkshake,” I began, only to be interrupted by the. So my in-laws suggested taking kaka with me as it was difficult to get transport to the outskirts of the city. The marriage party was great. I could meet my old friends. We wore skirts and had a great party. I felt as if I was in my college days.We had many rounds of vodka that day. I had a great day. The next day also after marriage there was slight drizzle as we were parting again me and my friends decided to have one more round of drinks. I got very high and we had goodbyes and parted.I was. I been wanting a baby for a long time. That bitch you hired just couldn’t give me one.”Jill bit her tongue. She couldn’t believe he’d said it. He’d always been snide, and mean, both to her and to others. His own friends, in High School hadn’t even been immune from his cruel taunts. He’d been a bully, though, back then, she had thought of him as being strong and commanding. What she saw now was exactly the same thing, and she recognized it for what it was.“You want to eat or not?” asked Sal..