. different hall pass,” Becca resumed anxiously.“Different how?” Mom asked my sister with an increasingly clinical tone.“Married women only? I...t didn’t take him long to cash it in, either,” I answered for her.“Rebecca Lucille Haven, you actively encouraged your boyfriend to sleep with other men’s wives?” Dad demanded to know while I grinned wickedly.“To be fair, Dad, Eddie’s ... lover’s husband seems to be okay with it,” I observed.“Well, that helps, to be sure,” Mom snickered now.“Guys, maybe. You can flip through 32 different movies and the tokens last about a minute each. The preview booths are on the left and they are numbered. You will be in booth number 6 at the very end of the hall. Give me a minute to get you set up and then just press the green button when you are ready to start. Just press the red button when you have seen enough and ready to leave. Just let me know if you want the movie or not when you come out. Enjoy." With that, he pressed a hidden button and we. “Well, I’m going to have a cup of tea,” she said, disappearing through a door across the room. She was back within two minutes and placed her cup on a marble-topped end table before she sat down next to me, a cushion between the two of us on the couch. She gracefully crossed her legs, brought the teacup to her lips, looked over the rim at me and asked, “So, Robert, what can I do for you?” before taking a sip of the steaming liquid. “Well,” I started, “I think you know, I need some help passing. He told me if I got scared to just squeeze his hand and he'd lift me out of the water. I floated perfectly. I don't know if it was that I was no longer worried or just the magic of him holding my hand, but I was never afraid of anything after that. So to have Mason holding my hand in the elevator was magical. I'd much rather have him hold my hand than vent about Gunner any day. As soon as we cleared the building and got back to the parking lot, Mason started speaking."I have no idea whether or.
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