And that fear, the fear of making her situation with Gary worse, still had the power to give her pause. She had already put herself in an unsavory pos...ition. If she and Gary did split up, she was an adulteress. Gary would already have the upper hand in any sort of legal proceedings. But that wasn’t at the root of her fear, was it? No, like the cigarette analogy, it was still too far off. But there was a fear, wasn’t there? Maybe it was the more natural, reactionary fear of having gotten into. ” Archie handed him a quarter. “Say, have you seen Betty around?”“Yeah, she was at the library, but she said she was on her way home about fifteen minutes ago.”“Thanks Jug.”“Sure thing Arch. Oh, and Archie?” Archie looked up, “what did you mean by ‘engaged in intercourse’ with Midge?”“We fucked,” said Archie.“Right. Well uh, later Archie old pal.” Jughead walked slowly down the path.And Archie stood there thinking. He thought how that communication with Jughead had been incredibly. There was no way shecould have taken the whole enema by herself. She wouldhave felt physically compelled to stop the flow after apint or two. To solve this problem she tied herselfwith a knotted rope. Yesterday she had taken a rope and fed it through ametal ring bolted to the celling. She took the looseends and tied 50 knots in them. A pair of handcuffswere fed through the loop created so that when shelocked the handcuffs around her wrists she would haveto untie all the knots before. Despite being a big house, the manor is claustrophobic. Too manypeople that seek shelter here. But from what? The ocean? Somehow I feelwe all are walking into a trap.12/28/2019Things are getting strange in here, Diary.People have found a new wing of the manor. Which doesn't make sense. Itwasn't there before. Houses don't just grow overnight. But what choice dowe have? A few stragglers arrived today and what they said didn't makesense. They said they traveled for over an hour through the small.