My standard answer was that we had nothing to talk about and I would hang up. Luckily we had no classes together on Monday so I should be able to avoi... her at school. Hopefully the way I handled her phone calls would help her understand that I wanted nothing to do with her and she would just leave me alone.I didn’t kid myself. It was going to be hard putting Paulie behind me. We had been together since the eighth grade and were talking about getting married when we graduated from college; a. My hands were getting wet. She walked over to her big purse. She pulled out a trashy romance novel. "I love to read, helps me sleep better. That and a few glasses of wine." she giggled. I got up to turn quickly. I got under the small white upper sheet and just under the worn out comforter. Cassie walked over to use the motel phone."Good night girls. We will see you in the morning. We are leaving no later than 7am. Sleep tight. Keep the noise down. I can hear your sister saying "Yes! Yes! Yes!. "I want youto consider the leading female role." Me?" I asked incredulously. "You want me to play the lead female? Areyou out of your mind?" Pausing when I realized what I said. "SorryMa'am, but..." Just how many male actors have played women's roles in history?" sheasked me. "Starting in Shakespeare's time? How about Jack Lemmon andTony Curtis? Or maybe Patrick Swayze? All of them are without a doubtvery masculine men, yet all of them have played women's roles on stageand in film, so I see no. It all seemed logical and rational, only it wasn't. The next thing I knew we had two new women move into my house. Linda and Frieda had found them and they were in need of a place to stay.Of course this was all discussed beforehand. I had a suspicion, hell I knew, that Linda and Frieda had already discussed this and made the decision before I was even brought into the equation.Yet how could I complain? Now there were two more women, both of whom were attractive, that were willing to share me..