.. well you know... interested, but I wasn't sure. You don't give a good clear signal either way." Well, being married and all man, I can't just very ...ell go around advertising something like that." I know, I was just curious about it." His eyes were locked on mine, waiting for me to say or do something.So here we were, two buddies, and the ball clearly in my court. I stood up and moved around the table toward him closing the distance between us to mere inches. He sat on the edge of the picnic. As they entered the front of the restaurant and Stavros told her to let herself out, he picked up the phone and dialled a number. A premonition sent a chill down her spine as he did so and she was sure that he was contacting Crawley.With trepidation, Deb made her way back to her apartment. Her heart sank as she turned into walkway where her apartment was located and saw Crawley leaning on the handrail outside her flat smoking a cigarette. As he observed her, with a smile, he took a last drag on. You know the sort of thing. He'd refer to us as Limeys and we'd refer to him as the Yank; it was all in good fun. As we got older Joe and I developed a special kind of bond. Something like some brothers have between them. I knew that I could rely on Joe to back me up in an argument or ruckus, and he seemed to know by instinct that he could rely on me, up to a point.That one point was to develop when we got older, and it concerned females. When Joe and I started dating girls I soon learnt that. Alan looked close seeing that they had a make shift type of mental shield around them. Pointing at each, their packs fell off then Alan had all of the remaining boosted ones as Varick had called them unconscious. Varick appeared beside him a moment later, “The idiot must be getting desperate to attack like this,” Varick told him.“No this was a ruse to draw us, well you, out. He knows he can’t get to me not any more. I think he thinks that all four of you are as weak as you were a few days ago..