' She smiled until she saw the name at the endof the tag."Who the hell is Brandy?" She said aloud to the empty kitchen. Shakingher head she went to pr...pare a cup of coffee and wait for the girls toreturn.The Haven felt different for some reason and she felt relaxed, shewanted to talk to Sophie about what she had done to the boy Simon.There came a sense of peace to the house and she placed her feet out infront of her on another chair. There was the scent of roses in thekitchen and it seemed to. She could not do this really, could she? "Ten thousand dollars" she heard herself say. "Done", he said, "Shall we go" and he offered her a hand off the bar stool. Her heart leapt, but she took his hand and climbed down from the stool.The appartment was close as he had said. As she walked through the door, she could see it was massive. He moved to kiss her. Instinctively she moved away. "Money first" she said. What was she doing! She did not act like this. Not for anything. She was scared but. She jumped and pushed herself up so that her bare bottom was on the clean countertop where I often rolled out pizza dough. I thought how I would savor every crust all the more from that moment on!She reached down and opened a drawer to her left and pulled out the ice cream scoop and then closed the drawer. She then took the scoop in both hands like a little girl and raised it to her thin lips and I watched in a hypnotic trance as her tongue flickered out from behind her white teeth and licked. My thought was, Bertha was in bed with the guard. If I could have hit the Plexiglas, I would have. It would have been nice to see the face of the guard that wasn’t guarding anything.They forced me inside the gang leader’s cell and held me against the bunk bed. If this was a game, I’d have been all for it, as the girls were pawing all over me. But just as that thought crossed my mind, Bertha walked in.“Not so brave now?” she asked, stepping in front of me.“You’re the coward; I don’t have a bunch.