She’d been my connection back in the day, before she’d struck gold and when we’d both been small-time users, and we’d always stayed close. Lex... looked at me. ‘I remember Sandra. I thought that part of your life was over.’ ‘It is,’ I said. ‘Sandra’s just an old friend, and she can help us. Besides, I haven’t seen her in almost a year.’ ‘April’s hot for you, you know.’ ‘I know. And you’re hot for Cormac.’ She squinted as if I’d passed something foul-smelling under her nose. ‘He’s attractive, but. He had so much pee in him that I thought it would never end and I would drown. He would pee in my face and order me to open my mouth and then ram is stupid fat weenie down my throat. There were times I blacked out because I couldn’t breath for what seemed like forever. He even stuck it up my butt and washed my insides with his stinking beer pee.Of course, once again good old mom was there snapping pictures the whole time. Last week was the worst. He invited four of his pervert friends over for. I always thought I managed to do this in a discreet manner and I assumed she was too busy with other customers to notice anyway. I was wrong, though.One Friday night, after having done my grocery shopping, I walked into the liquor store shortly before closing time. There weren’t any other customers inside and the only person in the store was the lady, standing behind the counter as always. I said hello to her, smiling and she smiled back. As usually, I walked over to where the bottles of scotch. After the accident that killed his siblings, his classmates had closed quickly around him to provide support for him in his time of grief. The bond that formed between them was quite powerful.His father had been privately disappointed following a meeting with the guidance counselors at Randy's school. He had hoped that his son would pursue a degree in chemistry, as he had, or in mechanical engineering, as he had done secondarily, but the counselors advised against those pursuits. "Randolph's.