If I somehow found the nerve I’d regret it later. So let’s just watch and then go home and fuck our brains out.”We kissed for a moment, until we...heard a clinking noise. We turned to see Jim tapping on his beer bottle to get everyone’s attention, as if everyone in the bar isn’t staring already.Everyone got quiet and Jim said, “Ladies and gentlemen, I want to apologize for my rudeness two nights ago. I should have introduced my lady friend to you when we were in here. I would like you all to meet. “I told you,” she said, with a touch of victory in her voice. She began to search for her brassiere. He held it up, dangling it from two fingers of his right hand. She reached for it and he snatched it from her reach. “I’ll just hold on to this,” he said. “I can’t go up there without a bra!” “You can,” he said. It was an order. “They will see. They will know.” He shook his head. “They will only know what we already know. They will know that you are brilliant, intelligent, and a smoking hot. “Hell you didn’t think I was really going to screw her did you. I played bodyguard nothing else,” he said.“You do know you are prattling?” I asked.“God no, please tell me that shit is not contagious,” Gray begged.“You take care of Tonya. Get her ready for breakfast while I walk. I’ll be back in an hour.” The walk got me out of the management zone and back into the real world zone for a while. The zone where my only problem was the next car I faced, or the next hill I had to walk up, or finding. It sounds like I’m turning into a girl for real. “You would’ve made a really good daughter…” She says throwing me off track just as Rich walks in and says, “Come on the bus is almost here!” I nod my head and follow out behind him wondering what would’ve made her say that. The bus rolls up and we get on the bus normally. I sit in the front where less people are and Rich sits in the back acting a fool as always. Even though he’s popular with people and I’m not we somehow are still best friends..