I’m sad. You know me, don’t you?’ ‘You do realize that you’re really bad at the whole break concept, right?’ he asked with a laugh. ‘I ...now. I just get lonely without you…’ ‘Then quit taking these pointless breaks! You know it just makes both of us more sad than before.’ ‘Can we not do this right now?’ I asked quietly. ‘Okay, okay. Then what do you want to do?’ He looked at me through his heavily lashed brown eyes. Those brown eyes melted away all the frustration and made me smile. I grabbed. . I guess it was kind of dorky twenty five years ago too!" No big deal, Mom. Just kind of funny." I know, I know. But really, Taylor ... I didn't understand what was going on with me, how I was changing, why I wanted to do the things I wanted to do." O.K., Mom. Well, if you really wanna talk about this ... Tell me, what do you mean when you say that, about the things you wanted to do? What does that mean?" Well, when you asked me about all that, you were asking me about ... O.K. What's the best. He commanded in his strongest voice, "Both of you, run for your lives! Get going right now!" Neither woman questioned him. They both ran down the hall and ducked into the emergency stairwell provided as a fire escape.The men inside the apartment had not paid any attention at first to what their "slaves" were doing. Bill was able to clear the room of innocents and to dive through the door before his presence even registered to the other men. Bill pulled his yawara sticks from his pocket and. I went up to my room to change out of my work clothes and put on something more comfortable.As I passed by Susie's room I heard her shower running. She must have finished swimming in the next door neighbor's pool and was washing off the chlorine. She and Becky spent most of the day at Paul Dirk's pool.I was going to strip off all my clothes and was passing by the window on my way to the closet when I glanced out of my second story bedroom. I did not sleep with Cal anymore. He was usually drunk.