Well, because I don't know how to do it right," she finished in a rush. She couldn't help but let out a soft sigh. "Look. First off, you have done abs...lutely nothing wrong. There is nothing wrong. There's just something that I need to discuss with you and I don't ... know where to start, let alone know how."Amazing both of them, Hope managed a small giggle. "Well, as they say, why not just start from the beginning?"The two looked at each other for an instant, then both smiled."Oh, delicacy be. All but one of them laughs at the thought. A wind blows frigid over everyone’s spine, collars fly up and eyes squint, collectively we all curse and they return indoors abandoning their individual coffin nails after only a few puffs each. I just hold my hands up to the heater and play the tough soldier at Valley Forge. Inside, the music playing is crap. Scotch, puff, scotch, puff, puff, shiver, scotch… Dark, loneliness… I really hate the cold now and the cigarette is mostly done. Inside, warm. She had just finished her rounds and was about to leave when she saw him in a hallway. He’d touched her on the arm. ‘I’ve missed you,’ he said, his blue eyes boring into her. She didn’t respond and he continued, ‘I hope I didn’t scare you away.’ He looked so earnest. His eyebrows were raised a little and his forehead wrinkled. She got the feeling the kiss they’d shared had meant as much to him as it did to her. She and Paul were friends. It had started as a mentor-mentee relationship, but. Roger doesn’t want any.”I waved at the room. “And they feel the need to flaunt their money like this?”“No, Danielle didn’t want the house, for the same reason, but Roger got it anyway.” She bent over and picked up the comforter off the floor. “I think this’ll work.” She looked at me. “You could wear it to get your clothes.”I agreed. When I looked up at Jordan, she was smiling at me.I swallowed. “I don’t know about this.”“C’mere. It’ll be easy.”I went to her, not sure what she had planned.She.