I'll see if she's available."I didn't recognize the young woman who had greeted me at the front of the furniture store. No surprise, since Warren had ...sold the store to a national chain and much of the staff had been let go. Monica was apparently an exception."She'll be right with you, sir," the girl said with a smile. True to her word, I saw Monica walking toward the front almost right away."Val? To what do I owe the honor?" she said, also showing a smile."I've brought you the check for your. A guy I know by complete chance started talking to me soon after I ordered my last pint, basically to rebuff the attentions of an over friendly older woman, and basically used me to dump her and get on with his night. She introduced herself as Jane, and we started talking. Very quickly Jane advised she was single and we got on well immediately, her constant flirting drawing smiles from me as we engaged in what was pretty mundane small talk. I would have guessed Jane was maybe 60, had a lovely. In the middle, there was a wooden closet and an open door that led to a bathroom. A comber table, with its chair and mirror, lay in front of the bed, and a small round table with another chair stood next to the full size window. The woman showed her around and then left her alone closing the door behind her. She left her suitcase near the closet and taking off the veil, she sat in the bed looking around. This would be a very long week. She looked at her watch, it was 4:00 pm, but she decided. I come from a family of accomplished individuals. So, yeah, I was under a lot of pressure to succeed. Which is why I took only advanced classes during my freshman year and started working for bio-engineering department head Josh Stanwick. A really odd guy if there ever was one. Thanks to an accident in the lab, I got taken to the hospital where I lost a lot of blood. I had a very rare blood type so the doctors weren’t optimistic about finding a donor in time. Fortunately, the fates smiled upon.