"Jonathan you little bastard you drank yourself into a goddamn stupor!"I simply groaned in response. My head was pounding. I had never been this drunk...before. I tried to sit up, and the dull throb behind my eyes broke into a splitting blinding pain. I dropped back down to the floor with a grunt.In the back of my mind I realized my chair had tipped over."Is that broken glass Jonathan? Goddamn! This is a mess." Jim was fumbling around with something that looked like a CompVac. Which is a little. I stopped in Ben’s driveway, and as I got out to walk Brandy to her door and Ben grabbed my arm.“Rick, if it takes me the rest of my life, I’ll repay you for this. I’m not talking about money either, I’m talking about repaying you as a best friend. Don’t think I’m not grateful, I am. But I am humbled too that I have such an unselfish best friend as you.”“Ben, you and I are a lot alike and I’m sure that’s the reason we are best friends. I had something that meant a lot to me. I gave Brandy one. You must have had quite a room at The Drake. And a purchase from noirleather.com? ‘Let’s see, over the past year, you’ve been to Detroit three other times and Napa, Cabo San Lucas and the Bahamas. And you actually bought her something from that lingerie shop we went to when we went to Paris for our anniversary?’ Her eyes turned red. Deep furrows chiseled into her forehead. She got up out of her chair, leaned over the table toward me and screamed, ‘You thought knowing the details would be. ”“I am only speaking of things to come; it is fine for now child.”Valerie settled back into her position and Greg remembered when her little hands used to feel so warm and cute, she had been so delicate and needed watching out for, now even at ten she was her own women and not only did not need him, but had little use for him.Once home Number two took all the groceries into the kitchen to Number one. After placing all the bags on the counter Greg knelt, awaiting instruction from anyone. Any.