"May I get you another Cosmo Miss Stratton?" I inquired.Smiling knowingly at me, she answered, "Oh yes Sissy! That would besplendid! You could probab...y use a break anyway I bet," she addedgratuitously."And you ma'am?" I asked Grace.Letting her hand fall out from under my skirt she said, "Yes Sissy.Please. Don't tarry now."Grateful to be out of her grasp, for now, I click-clacked off of thebalcony to prepare them each a fresh drink. I took my time, using theexcuse to be out of Grace's. Leeanns contractions became more regular and got closer and closer together. She was crying her eyes out with the pain, holding onto Jessies hand tightly as Jess tried to reassure Leeann and reminding her to breath. Jessie was suddenly silent, Leeann opened her eyes to see her mother Vera standing over Jessies body with an empty syringe in her hand. JESS! NO! Leeann cried out painfully as she held her stomach. Well, well. Didnt I tell you not to leave? You are not prepared for this, daughter.. I had to learn to be hard on people, to evict people. Otherwise, I'd be in the poor house and nobody would have a home, including me!Somehow, I had forgotten all that. I was scum. I was going to kick Jenny out of her home. She had become so desperate, she offered me sex for rent and I said yes.I knew what I had to do to set things right.It took all of my courage to make that trip to Jenny's apartment. I stood in front of her door a nervous wreck. Finally, I just did it. I just knocked. There's. "Come on, get off the freaking gossip sites and holllyyyshitttt!" Hi," said her brother, wiggling his fingers in the air as Tracey juststood there in shock, dropping her purse and her latte."Oh myyy gawwwdddd!" said Tracey, with her jaw wide open, stunned."You'll need more than him to help you pass, and pick that up before itspills everywhere," said her mother, painting a strand of her brother'shair and folding over a foil. "And I doubt he will since it's been quitea while since you've gone to.