It was then that I heard the voice of the queen ant who had settled down on my shoulder. She told me that she owed a friend a favor who had sent her o...er to help me out and her workers were going to count the grains and once done they would let me know the total number of grains in the sack.” Smiling down at the pear she continued “I thought I had really gone mad but then I saw a splash of red crawl out of a little crack on the floor next to you.” Melissa shifted away from the doorway uneasily. Kim has told me you're an ingenious inventor and that I should be anxious to see your latest creation." Well, I know Kim certainly likes it. Maybe you would, too. Who knows?"The three of us all ordered salad. Kim had the Greek, I had the Nicoise and Kourtney had the Caesar. As we sat there chomping on lettuce, Kim moved the conversation along. "Mr. Kelly has agreed to let you see the machine in action, if you want, Kourt. I think you should. You're never going to see anything like this again.. .. I had become the woman... I was now Jack's wife.I tried to hide the tear that was rolling down my cheek but Jack pushed it away with his thumb. He gently bent down and kissed my upturned mouth. We lay there with his stiff rod still pulsing inside of me."Oh, my God... that was incredible!" he softly spoke. "Did you do this for me?"I felt the last of the magic wash over me as I pulled him close, "I have loved you forever and would do anything for you, my love." I couldn't believe what I was. Vanessa invited Pilar to lunch at our loft on the second Saturday of her self-imposed exile to Brookside. Pilar accepted, but turned down a ride, “I’ll just take the Max.” Main Street Max, about 20-minutes to the Crossroads.Pilar was her usual sprightly self — chatty, friendly — over lunch. I’d made a run to Bryant’s at 18th and Brooklyn in the Forgotten Northeast for bar-b-que. A slab for each of us, plenty of those fried-in-lard fries. Which Walker refreshed in our largest cast-iron frying.