Go. Go get the paper. I’ll still be here when you get back.”So, I did just that. I sat back down on the couch and folded the paper in quarters an... picked up a pen. Joyce moved next to me and asked if she could work the puzzle with me. She took my arm in hers and snuggled against me as we worked though the clues. The smell of her and the feeling of her warm naked skin on mine made it very hard for me to concentrate. She was making all kinds of things very hard.“Bill, I think you need some. High. It was cocaine. I did some lines with my boyfriend, Kirby. He was celebrating his latest promotion at Exxon. He’s moving in, just so you know. That’s why you had to go right then. Look, I’m getting a job with him and starting over. I just want to make sure that we’re ... good. Sorry I shot you, but ... well, you were trespassing now that it was my house instead of ours,” Elaine continued to show fuzzy logic.“So, you were high then, are you drunk now? The only reason that I don’t sue your. ” she giggled and didn’t say anything. After the security check, I got a bottle of water and settled with my novel as it was still sometime for our boarding. I saw the girl sitting a few paces away from me searching for something in her bag and I didn’t pay much attention, after some time, I felt a tap on my shoulder and I broke out of my reverie to see her standing in front of me she said “Hey are you ‘my name’, you look familiar” I said yes and mentioned that I didn’t actually recognize her,. .”I had enough. “Maria, I think it would be best if you left now.”Maria started to leave, but I called out to her, and she turned around. “You said something about an exhibition?”“Yes, there is to be an exhibition, a retrospective, of Antonio’s works, and Carole’s portrait was to be the centerpiece.”I nearly exploded! “What! She hasn’t humiliated me enough; she has to make it public?” Maria started to say something else, hesitated, then let herself out leaving me alone with my thoughts.I was.