He was half way to the house when his cell phone rang and he tiredly lifted it from the passenger side seat, it was early, and he never liked early ca...ls, but he answered as politely as always. ‘Conner Desway.’ ‘Conner, it’s doctor Formike.’ The dentist said cheerily, he was obviously enjoying his vacation, and Conner wanted to be happy for him, but crap, he was not a morning person, and he would have rather been the one on vacation. ‘What can I do for you?’ Conner asked. ‘Tessa tells me she’s. "She said it was Annie's"Her smile gets a watery when she says Annie's name. Oh 'verse mine does too. Annie was a good friend, I really wished I had been given more time to know her."That was very nice of her." I give her a grin back. "I did not think Diana would ever give up a weapon once she called it hers." Do ya really think so?" Alys looks horrified at the thought of having to give the weapon back. "She never said..."I ruffle her hair and laugh lightly. "No you silly goose. I was just. "Something about Pearl reminded me of Cindy, my live-in lover for three years. She'd been voluptuous before she decided to emulate Ally McBeal. Her compulsion to be thin exacerbated a shrewish nature and she harped endlessly. I was ready to end our relationship when I came home unexpectedly one day to find another man in my bed with her. I threw out the skinny slut.I'd always been embarrassed by my thinness. "Bony," my mother'd said. When Cindy changed, she made nasty comments about my body,. "Maybe I will," she whispered. She pulled away slightly to look at me, and just as I thought she was about to go further, she leaned quickly away and grabbed her drink again."Alright," she said, "you get away with it… for now. Who's number 4?"I looked back at Nikki, who suddenly became very interested in the bottom of her glass. She'd obviously been watching Deborah falling all over me. Was she jealous? I thought back to the answer I was going to have to give; we were in uncharted territory.