"So why'd Lisa come along tonight?" I asked as I turned off the engine."She was curious." You haven't told her everything?" I haven't told her very mu...ch," she said. "You're the one that told her about your conversation with Mr. Delgado, when you talked to her on the phone yesterday." Oh." That's right. I'd told Lisa my secrets myself."So she wants to hear how your dinner with Tina went. I told her she'd have to ask you herself, and respect your wishes if you said no." Ahh." I started to get out. Is that understood?”“Yes, absolutely,” I said. “I hear you loud and clear.”The way he said all that seemed to ease a pressure that I didn’t know I’d been feeling. I might not’ve been aware of it, but I had been worrying about Bonnie. Benito had made it simple for me. There was no decision to be made.“Er, I think Bonnie told you that I smacked her. Am I in trouble for that?” I asked.Benito shrugged. “There is such a thing as reasonable chastisement. Bonnie acknowledges that you never struck her. He knew he had to get to Sam to warn her and get some help. By now it was getting near to lunchtime and he headed for the local library. He found a quiet corner and connected his laptop to his mobile phone. He dialled up his ISP and e-mailed Sam asking her to meet him in their favourite chat-room urgently. He waited a while and prayed that Sam was checking her e-mail regularly. Logging on he nearly screamed out loud when he saw her name."sam somethings happened we're in trouble" billy, whats. It felt good to hold onto it. “I just mean one day. I don’t mean tomorrow. You read me well, Elaine.” “I didn’t think you meant tomorrow.” “It could be in twenty years, when we are old and grey... well, I will be.” “You will not. You’re only thirty-four.” “You’ve read my profile.” Elaine gulped, blushing and realising the conversation was hurtling in a direction she wasn’t expecting. “Yes.” “Then you know where I live.” “Yes.” She was determined not to lie. .