"Hey good lookin, wanna go for a ride?" One called as I passed. Another one tipped an imaginary hat and gave me a little bow and a big smile."Not toda...y, I said. "Just here for a little talk with Randy." I kept going onto the trailer and they continued on to a big pickup truck parked beside my car.I walked into the trailer right at 11. The place was a mess, papers laying in piles, book cases full of folders in disarray and a dented, grey file cabinet behind his desk. Old calendars with pin up. “And now you’re stuck with me,” I replied. “I’m sorry for dragging you into my problems James.”“Justin,” he replied. “The sooner we think of each other with our new names, the better. When I volunteered to come here with you, it wasn’t just to make your father happy, Danny. I love you, girl, and where you are, is where I will be. I think it is you who have become stuck with me.”“I think I can live with those consequences as long as you don’t die on me again. You’ll break my heart if you ever. ’ ‘It’s not like he punched me in the face, Lara. But still, it was a line we drew toward the beginning of the relationship and he crossed it. I could’ve let the cursing go, but not the physicality.’ Truth be told, this was not the only time David had been physical with me when things didn’t go his way. He apologized for weeks until I caved and took him back, but I said if he ever got physical with me again, we were done for good. ‘I get it, Kennie. I do,’ she said, wrapping her arm around my. Back home for a snooze, swim, tea, watch the news.Lauren found her bikini bottoms, pulled them on along with a short T-Shirt and wandered into the kitchen. She had a feeling, after glances between the cleaning staff the day before, that they wouldn't be coming that day. Or any day in the near future. She scratched, annoyed with the stickiness of her T-Shirt, the heat that had already built up in the kitchen, and the need to swim. It was seven-thirty. Even if the cleaners did arrive, there were.