Brad continued to receive praise for his performance on stage. Abby never left his side, constantly holding his hand and beaming with pride for her lo...e.“Hey Brad, we’re back on in five minutes!” Jim yelled to him, and he acknowledged him. Abby and the girls made their way to the edge of the stage, ready for more songs from the band.“I was going to sit out this set so I could dance with Abby.”“We’re only playing two sets,” Jim replied.“Go and play, I love your voice, Brad. I’m so proud of you!”. It was the ultimate win-win situation for Rush, and few people, even most of the partners, knew of the arrangement.*******​The door swung shut behind Rush and Bill then took a different route back to the estate. Mr Rush had recently assigned Bill other responsibilities including that of collecting the monthly rent from several of Rush's investment properties.Bill drove towards downtown Hawksville and the Asian laundry. He parked the car in a nearby quiet indoor facility, took the travel bag. The next thing I knew, it was days later and I was in a hospital. My whole family was dead. I died that night, too. My destruction would have been complete within three days of the time I met my new brother and sister, Ken and Cathy, who saved me. I had been starving myself to death and was only three days away from succeeding."However, seeing their love for each other I realized the extent to which I had been raised in a cocoon of love. The cocoon was destroyed, of course, by the death of my. Our time was not careful time, our time seemed not as time at all. Then alas, when the room was not an echo chamber for your cries, it was host to our bodies, lying motionless there, unable to speak for it. The strange shatter of what we had made each other's bodies do. Never before have I vibrated outward from within my entire being. Never before had you shook the way you did while taking all passion into the depths of your womanhood.But now, the sun is away. The wind blows the trees against.