“Terry has been diligent on keeping me informed but I have been less than diligent about actually reading the reports he has been sending me every w...ek.” I got a groan from Terry, but grins from Billy, Annie and Jake. Liz just smirked and shook her head.“What does that mean to us in terms of the cost of remodeling, projected income and so on. Can you give me a thumbnail sketch, as Jake likes to say?”Billy waved his hand in Annie’s direction and she straightened her shoulders, turning to face us. Skeptical at first I quickly became intrigued and infatuated with my covert activity. Since this candy-fix fed my prurient interests to discuss sex, any need to rationalize why I did what I did became meaningless to me.And as I replayed Liz's words over in my head—you really do need to purge—I not only had justification, I had permission.Staring uneasily at my phone's unlit, outside-line light, I became a bomb expert ready to disarm the explosive's timer as the seconds counted down to zero. A. "I just don't like the idea of coming across weirdos in the middle of the night. We're here, aren't we? If I was gonna change my mind, I would have stayed home." Alright, I get it." Mike thought of the rumors she had told him about. The looters who nearly died of fright, people last seen here now missing. She had some crazy ideas, but what the hell, right? Maybe she'd finally get that 'supernatural experience' she always talked about. "I was just teasing anyway."Around a corner a tattered. She was 36 at the time and I 37. We had no set plans and decided to begin with dinner at a nice restaurant. We finished both our dinner and the pitcher of margaritas we ordered. Upon leaving decided that neither of us should be driving. Instead we decided to walk around the city.Several blocks away, we came across an adult arcade/bookstore and I k**ded her about going inside. She had never been in one and was curious to see what it was like. Who was I to stop her? The store was rather crowded.