’ ‘Christ you are a bit old-fashion. Oh and don’t let Betty hear you call me Harry. She’d fly off the handle and say if my mother wanted me to...be called Harry she would have named me Harry.’ ‘Oh I apologize.’ ‘There’s no need. Actually I prefer Harry and that’s what my friends called me until Betty arrived on the scene.’ Buck loved that story. He never heard people relate tales like that in the big city. On the following Saturday morning Buck collected Stacey at her home for the overnight. ” Deirdre had a serious sense of women and I didn’t have nearly the same radar for that type of thing, so I nodded rather than pretend to know more than she did. Before she let me go greet Jessica, she had one more thought for me to take with me on my ‘date.’“If you bring that one home with you later, I can promise you that Evie and I can get that thong off in no time at all, and we can all play House with her.”There you go.Jessica Davidson rose when I walked in. “Good evening, Lord. Unfortunately, she would have to wait to find out, at the precise moment that she started pulling out the tape, her dad called to them at the foot of the steps, saying that dinner was ready. After dinner, Diana had to go. Allison waved goodbye and went back up to her room and wondered… ********************************************** The next day was a Saturday, and her parents were having one of their pool parties. Roger was there, paying a lot of attention to her needs, and making sure that he. “Of course. It was also when I decided that I would be the power behind the throne, at least until Honack had a little accident too,” he sniggered. “Then of course the AIs declared you competent to rule and Honack decided she was not going to insist on being Regent. Still I had the benefit of rejuve and I used it to isolate you and sponsor others to bring you down.”“Yes, that worked well, didn’t it,” I chuckled.“Oh, if it isn’t the Imperial cheerleading buffoon,” he sneered.“That’s me, thwarter.