Frank shook his hand and did the same.As soon as they were inside, Jeff turned to Laura, "We need..."Kathy finally got around everyone else and launch...d herself at Frank, interrupting Jeff. As she hugged Wainwright, she quietly said, "Thank you so much for the job. I know I don't have any experience, but I'll make you proud of me." Then with tears and a shaky voice, "And thank you so much for paying off all my bills. I was about to get desperate, and the bonus... I just don't know what to say.. He unzipped his sleeping bag and struggled out of it. His body was aching and he felt more weak than he ever had in his life. His only thought was that if he were at home he would be enjoying a nice hearty breakfast at his mother's table right now. Why the hell was he not allowed to bring food out here, anyway?"You must be empty, before you can be truly filled," his grandmother had told him. "You must be bare, and broken, and helpless, before the journey can be complete." Have you ever gone on. .. I mean what sort of secrets?" Jane asked warily. She'd matched Tara glass for glass and was just as drunk."How old you were when you first did it... I was seventeen, how about you?" The same." Jane conceded. She felt as if Tara was railroading her, but she still answered. It was hardly the most intimate of secrets.And so it started, the trading of private information, first orgasm, first oral sex, favourite position, weirdest moment... then Tara asked. "How many lovers... I had five before I. ’ ‘What did you two talk about?’ ‘Nothing really. I mean… Luke politely apologized and so did I,’ I say with an innocent shrug, my plastic fork cutting into my pancakes. ‘Why did you have to apologize? He was the one that called you a whore.’ I shake my head and I pull the piece of pancake off my fork with my tongue, contemplating what to say. ‘She simply apologized for running out on us and leaving us full of worry,’ Luke mumbles, looking up from the floor as I nod in agreement, swallowing. I.