“It has been too long. What has it been, six months?”“More like seven,” Melissa said with a smile.“I have brought a surprise.”Through the ...oorway walked Eric, the high priest.Livia let out a shriek and hugged her elderly friend. “It has been too long! How are things going in New York City?”He shrugged, “Nothing new since my report last week.”Eric ran the main church in Manhattan, and helped Livia with administering the church.Livia no longer led the worship services. Now she was in charge of. Her friend nodded.“You know, I still don’t know what Owen does for a living. I mean you’ve told me that he mostly buys and sells money for a living, but that can’t be for real,” said Harriet.“He says it is. He says you can invest in currency, money, and kinda bet whether the currency, the money, grows in value or decreases in value. Yeah, and I know it’s not something that I know how to do or ever even heard of before I met Owen, but he says it is in fact for real. I guess it is,” said. I should probably go into how class was boring here, but I won’t drag out the chapter this time. No, instead I’ll only make a single point of this day, and then we’ll skip ahead.At lunch, I successfully skipped out of school to an area known as ‘the spot’ which was a little area behind the main school grounds, just west of the area where I had sex with Liza. Why did I head out there? Because I was hanging out with my sister and her friends, and Stacy Z needed a smoke, so we all went out. It was. “You sound British yourself,” she said.The woman then went on to explain that she had married a Portuguese man and moved here. “It was a holiday romance and the marriage didn’t last long but I stayed,” she told us. “I like it here. I have a partner and a son.”“We’re on holiday here too. Trying to see much of the real Portugal rather than concentrate on the tourist part.”“No children in tow?”Sue smiled. “They’ve grown up and are at university now.”The woman laughed. “Having some us time.