”“I wasn’t mean to him.”“You weren’t very nice. He was sick.”“He was drunk and that’s no excuse for you to crawl into bed naked with...him.”“He needed comforting.”“Not that kind of comforting.”“He needed to be held and you wouldn’t hold him.”“I never said I wouldn’t hold him.”“But you didn’t. You scolded him instead.”“Because he was drunk.”“You don’t scold someone when they’re feeling bad like that.”“Fine. I’ll apologize.”“When you do, tell him I liked holding him.”“You tell him. You’re jealous,. ‘So be it, Sonny. Sorry…Ike, you said, right? I’m BJ. Short for Billy Joel, but then my parents were big fans of his,’ the guy said through his decaying teeth. ‘Ah, I see,’ I smiled as I tossed back the tequila with salt and lime. It was like a jolt of electricity or a bolt of lightning coursing through my body rather suddenly. It was too soon for the buzz to kick in yet, but the anticipation of it was excitement enough in its own way. It didn’t take long for the liquor to hit me, however,. We talked that night and I showed her the pm’s I got from X. She got quiet and then gulped. She said: “I know. I’ve been PM’ing him too. He sounded so cool, and now we’ve been having real hot talk thru our pm’s.”I realized he had dumped me and now had taken up with ‘baby’. I was hurt, but glad for baby. We talked late into the night on how X sounded so sexy and cool. The nights dragged by with no PM’s from Mr. X. I then got a call from ‘baby’. She said she found out X lived nearby!…and!….she. I told them that I wanted to take a week to think it over.The week since the trial had passed quickly and the day of public punishments for these people had arrived! I was to have my vindication for what these people had done to me! I told myself that I was only going to attend these punishments because the judge expected me to do so. But there was a secret part of me that was going to enjoy this!Bill had an important business commitment and could not go with me. I did not want to be alone for.