APARTMENT BUILDING - LATE AFTERNOONA hulking behemoth of a man -- brawny, bulging, andbutch -- saunters up the walk. The man wears make-up,not clownis..., but applied conservatively as a realwoman might. Beneath the make-up though, he clearlyhas a five o'clock shadow. Small gold hoops are in his pierced ears. His hair is cut very close to theskull in a military buzz. A silky white blouse iswrapped tight about his barrel-chest, and he carriesa large black purse on one arm and has a blue-gray. " What's that Mistress?" I asked."You'll have to be naked the entire time so make sure your body is smooth except the hair on your head." Suzy demanded with a little chuckle.Click. I stood for a minute just staring at the phone in my hand. Naked? What had I just agreed to? Actually, I didn't agree to it, she just didn't give me a chance to refuse.Now I'm not what women would consider beefcake or anything, but with Suzy’s help and encouragement I had started to work out and keep myself in better. Tom felt a sense of loss. He watched as the book was passed to each boy. A couple struggled with the words, and then the next was given the book. Tom watched as each boy gave it his best try. Some just looked at the book and handed it back shaking his head. When Billy Wilson got the book he sneered at it and dropped it. The man was as fast as a snake as his knife was at Billy's throat.They all watched as the front of Billy's pants suddenly got wet, and a stream of yellow ran over his foot. The. “I’m not doing anything major. Give me a minute and I’ll be over.”Tom and Alicia were living next door when I moved in a year or so ago. He was in his 40s, kind of a dorky looking guy who seldom talked about anything but his job when I saw him. He was very much a gladhander, very corporate, and kinda cheesy, to be honest. Alicia, on the other hand, was in her mid-30’s, a natural blonde, and fun to talk to. She was a stay-at-home mom to her 6 year old, but before that, as she’d told me in.