’ Brent said watching her walk towards him. ‘You’re drunk, you’d be making it with a Golden Retriever.’ She climbed on him again. ‘That’... okay, I like taking advantage of sexy men, I do it as a side line with the shop.’ She kissed him. ‘So, does this mean they’ll be a bill at the end?’ he asked kissing her deeply, and moving his hand between her legs and touching her, sliding his finger through her wet, velvety softness. She gasped at his touch, moving her hand down and taking his hard shaft in. Heasked Butch to leave. Butch argued with him and the shift bossthreatened to call the police. Butch left but Tonya was shaking. Theshift boss calmed him down and told him he was doing an excellentjob. He went back to taking orders.At the end of the shift his tip jar was full. They counted it and hehad gotten seventy-five dollars in tips. Twenty-five went to thecooks and he got fifty. The shift boss told him he was going toschedule him as a waitress from now on. He told him to wear theuniform. " So, what, are you saying she won't tell you?" Meredith said."No," I said, "she probably will. But it'll be hard." So what?" said Brandon again. "Arie, the man's coming with the knife. He intends to kill you. Yeah, it's gonna be hard to stop him. But does that mean you're gonna lie down and let him do it?"They looked at me, calm twin stares, and I knew what the answer was.The car ride home was like water torture: wanting to move, wanting to flinch, wanting something to happen. While Mom and. .I can tell you how it feelsin multitudes of waysTo not wanna be realto want to fade awayI can show you howmy inner being drownedFrom being in this townfrom staying on the groundEveryones an alpha dogalways looking down Never eat the scrapsjust leave them on the groundI often danced to soundslike no one was aroundTo noise they couldn't heartill no one was around..My mind keeps forgettinghow to breathe rightFor while others air goIn and outout and inIn a simple function of normalityMine falters.