There weren’t any and no one knew where she wasuntil she called them. The telephone was on the blinkjust now but Gloria assured her it’d b...e back on in themorning. She could get a feed just down the road at theCheeky Monkey, a dingy looking pub but one which Gloriasaid served a good meal at reasonable prices and if youcould ignore the roughnecks it wasn’t a bad place atall.Gaye, dressed in her only pair of jeans, by now after 6months on the road, faded, thin and very tight,. But just who was the cat andwho the mouse in our game, I wasn’t quite sure. FinallyI reached the side street on which I’d parked. The usedbookstore was on the corner. The proprietress was awoman both ancient and kind. The actual store was on the second floor, above aflorist, in a space narrow and long and overcrowded withbooks of all kinds. I had spent hours just browsing,usually buying a book or two even if I didn’t findanything of particular interest because the woman was. Again, justifiably so.“Afraid so. I don’t know about you guys, but I’m in no mood to back down, are you? Not from those hooded asshats! My great-grandfather made the mistake of visiting a town in North Carolina once, way back in the day. Kluckers ran him out of town to buckshot just before dawn in nothing but his long johns. Just for being a Jew,” Leah cussed.“I can believe it. My great-uncle Boyd was lynched by the Klan, supposedly for raping a white woman,” Becca gritted her teeth now at the. She is quite slim but has a lovely curvy figure and her boobs tend to stand out because of her tiny waist. She is one of my original buddies from college and is one of my closest friends. Emma had graduated in the June of 2011 and like most students was faced with a huge debt and whatever the big wide world had to offer. She probably should have gone looking for work but her parents had paid for her to go to Barcelona for a few days by Euro star from Paris. Obviously, it’s quicker to fly but.