He was also wearing socks with sandals,which made him English for sure. Nin was easily beating him, whichwasn't exactly a surprise, and he looked as i...f he was already drunk. Ithought he looked familiar but I couldn't work out where I might haveseen him before.Pao was still next to me. "What's he been asking about, Pao? Do youknow?" Girls say he asking about you, where you from, what you do and aboutMiss Alex. Do you want me to throw him out, Mr James?"I had seen Pao deal with a few rowdy. I parked my car a Mustang GT, three houses down the block and waved to my retired neighbor, Benson Dubois, whose house I parked in front of.I walked down the block as quickly and as quietly as I could. I opened my front door as quietly as I could too. I heard the bed springs squeaking as soon as I got inside the house. My blood pressure must have shot up at least fifty points. But my brain was functioning clearly.I knew that my wife was upstairs and I knew who she was upstairs with. I'd known. Knuckles white against the black steering wheel while she fights to catch her increasingly shallow and rapid breath.“I can’t,” she starts stammering over and over. “I can’t, I can’t.” Unable to stop. “I can’t I can’t.”The barbs tangle deeper, squeezing out any hope Nova has left, leaving her with hot tears of rage down her cheek. She feels another heart-wrenching outcry bubble to the surface, but before her raspy voice hits the air, a delicate, ‘Breathe baby.’ floats in on the howling. They didn't get the reaction they were hoping for, that is for sure. I bet they were hoping for tears, instead they got mild contempt. The first time she was standing there, 5ft 6, heart shaped face, framed by short black hair, staring down at the boy and asked him simply if he thought that her panties were too large, and if he had given her warning, she would have worn a thong. The second boy to try it, obviously not forewarned, when he found that she didn't run away or attack him, was frozen,.