She was going to do to me, what she did to Katie."While she does look frightened-" he started."Exactly, now if you'll excuse me-"The slam was blocked ...by a shoe."Not good enough, Em. I'm not going to have her back to me in pieces."A wave of relief ran through Renee. She didn't want the feeling to have been caused by Claude, but if his- what had Simon called it?- 'jealousy' made him protect her ... she wasn't going to reject it."For fuck's sake," said Emilee. "Great. You see that? You see what. That wasn’t as great of a deal as it might have sounded since most of the furniture was 30 years old and pretty worn. Still, she was going to have her own place and it would be furnished.Sandra, on the other hand, didn’t understand why getting his own place was that big of a deal. She felt he had it pretty good at his parents’ house and didn’t need to move out. He could commute to college from where he was living now. She did have to admit that the investment side of getting the cheap house had. Bill and Ben together and the 3 ladies together. Getting the start of lunch a waiter came over to get their drink order, Helena and Suzanne ordered orange juice, and Mrs Jones a bottle of sparking wine, Ben a beer and Bill a coke cola. Bill recognised the waiter mentioning he use to be such a bully at school and this role working here, must be such a let down to him. Unknown to Bill, the waiter did recognised Bill and put some vodka in Bills drink.Finishing the first course, the girls went to. She’d figured him for a businessman stopping for coffee on the way home, who was getting a buzz out of checking out her legs and knickers before going home and screwing his vanilla suburban wife, checking Michele out to get himself aroused. ‘But there you go; we live in a strange world, ‘ she thought.Michele froze, saying nothing.“Good,” the man said.Michele was still dressed in the same outfit she had worn to the coffee shop but had removed her jacket.The man removed his hand from her mouth.