He seemed confident. Genuine. “Well what did you cram in there, then?” “Come with me.” He said. I shrugged and followed. We meandered the shel...ves and counters until he’d brought us to the deli section. “If a man wanted to stuff something in his pants to be like me, he’d need this.” He said placing an object in both my hands. I looked at the baguette I looked at him. I looked at the bread again. Then I looked at him. “Bull SHIT!” I spat, throwing the French bread into my grocery cart. “I’m not. “You’ve had a pretty rough day, listening to all that.”She nodded. “It wasn’t so bad as all that. I know you didn’t do any of what she was talking about. It was hard to listen to her say them, but it’s because she’s not well, right? Once she starts talking to her new doctor, she’ll start to recover.”“Hopefully,” I said. “Recovery isn’t always an easy road to travel. She could be years before she can face what happened that night and separate it from what happened here Friday in her head.”“When. I pictured my 16 year old daughter up against me. And then she whispered, "Daddy, are you awake". I was forced back to reality. "Yeah , can't sleep. What's up?" " I can't sleep either. Can I get into your sleeping bag with you? I still get scared sometimes in the woods.", she asked this as she turned around to look at me. Even knowing the torture it would be I forced myself to be a good father and ignore the building desire. "Of course sweetie", I barely got out. "Thanks daddy." and with a big. Oh fuckhere we go I thought, shit we have only just arrived.The guy smiles at me and asks if he can buy the drinks for us??"No thanks," I mumbled. I handed over my money and headed back to thetable.The girls were laughing and Alecia asked, "What did he want?"I winced. "Oh the sleazy prick at the bar you mean? He wanted to buyour drinks."Alecia pretended to look shocked. "What and you refused?" Yeah of course I refused. I didn't want him hanging around all night."Lauren snapped. "Jesus we go to.