I have your order here.Thanks my dear. I’ll be by Friday to help with your cleaning. Bye. Lisa waved as she hustled down the stepsWhat a sweetie t...ought Mrs. V., what a dear to have around.Five more stops. Vito’s barber shop. Tony’s butchers and then a couple houses.Finally! She had one more stop, out of the way so she decided to take a little short cut so she could get home and get on her homework.She walked down the alley. In grade school she had a friend who lived on that block but she. Nearly as drunk as she was...wanted to know why the sad face.“Oh, I love a concerned man,” she sobbed. “This is my mom.”Time out for introductions.He staggered to his feet and kissed my hand, “Pleased to meet you.” He turned to a handsome man in the vicinity of my age and said, “This is my dad.”A second round of introductions, mostly slurred and generally unintelligible.Eventually, the conversation worked its way around to the beginning...why she was crying.“This is the bestest mom in the whole. I guess I was going to see him once he got backinto town and explain the circumstances to him.”“I figured you’d want to do something of that naturalbut what I really wanted to know was if you wanted tocontinue seeing him once he moved back?”Amanda looked a bit confused as she replied. “What doyou mean?”Paul took a deep breath before replying. “Amanda. You’rea different person now. I don’t know how to explain it.I love the way you’ve. “You are a manipulative little wench, Jennifer Reed.” “Yes, Jahn Halvers. I certainly am. What’s it gonna be?” she asked mockingly, as she picked up the cooler and her carryall. “Going to show off ‘Big Jahn’ with pride?” Wincing, he accepted the remark with the grace he could muster. During an unasked for moment of dominance, he’d rather egotistically (and foolishly) told her to take it all, every last inch of his beast , and she’d called him out on it afterward. Only slightly longer than.