"She doesn't like to talk to anyone but me, you know that. I swear she told me she'd do your paintings if you paid us that much." I believe you, Tina,...it isn't that. Still, you're here asking me to give you more money, at a time when I still haven't gotten anything to show from my last advance to you. I'll pay the three thousand I promised for those four paintings, but, if you want another advance from me, I'll need to hear Sherry promise me she'll do those paintings for me. She'll need to. This might make things even worse for Wendy and Dave. Which reminds me, she wanted us to call her and tell her what happened.”“We will, but first I need to take a shower and wash Trisha off my body.”“I think I’ll join you. I’d never turn down a sexy shower with my husband,” she remarked, cuddling to him.“I get tingles all over my skin thinking about us finally getting married,” he said, hugging her.“And so do I, Dan and Karen Hayward!”After a sensual shower and a family supper, Diane and Brenda. It was strange. He doubted Jenny made a habit of leaping into bed with any patient who couldn't sleep, but she hadn't hesitated to do so with him. Still, a part of him seemed to find it perfectly fitting that she should.There were more tests that day, all as inconclusive as those the day before. His mother and sister visited again, and told him that if no more troubling symptoms showed up he would be discharged the next day."You'll have to spend another night here," his mother said. “ I took a big gulp of coffee and tried to hide my excitement at this prospect.She continued on, “I know you are leaving in about three weeks to go over to Korea and I want to spend as much time with you as possible. Things happen when guys are in the military and I do not want to have something happen and then wish I had at least asked you to say with me for a little while before you left (little did either of us know that I would be sitting in some shit hole in the middle of a desert in about.