The girls were sitting together on one of the sofas with their arms draped casually around each other. I quickly found out that Bonnie knew all about ...he events of last night and was squarely in my corner. Except that Bonnie was adamant that Jen still wanted to have sex with me, despite all the trauma of last night. I still couldn’t wrap my head around that so I put her off with some double talk.I thought maybe it was better if Estelle and I could talk without the girls listening in so I asked. “Yeah, yeah.”She winked at me as she slammed her locker shut. “See ya!”It took a few minutes to find the photography studio in the basement. The class of twelve was an assortment of kids from various grades. I didn’t know anyone well enough to sit next to them, so I chose the first space that was open. The teacher disregarded the starting bell, meandering around the classroom instead, collecting little piles here and there. A few minutes later she seemed placated and turned to us.“I assume. She had run out of money 5 daysago and out of friends to give her a bed 2 nights ago. It had been only a matterof time before she had come up that hill from the town to apologise. And hereshe was! I had my man fetch her a cool drink and told her to sit.She dumped the bag and the guitar and slumped down in the chair, avoiding myeyes. She thanked me and then, after a pause, made her apology. She was pantinga bit, mostly from the physical effort; my villa was 400 feet above the harbour,high in the. “Hi, Master, Madam, subbies...”Over everyone’s reactions, Margo’s rang out the clearest.“Jester, what the fuck are you doing here?”“Therein, Madam, lies a bit of a tale. If I may?”Margo nodded, and Amanda hopped up in Margo’s lap.“Well, some time ago, my Mommy and Daddy loved each other very much...”“Skip forward to why you’re here in Hawaii, with us, on Madam Gao’s estate,” Margo growled.“Well, then you’ll miss a lot of funny stories, but okay,” Amanda replied. “It was decided – by exactly.