To be honest I’m really scared and I’m very sad now.Thank you, and I have to get to work before school.”Siza walked away back toward the market ...nd she stopped in the middle of the street, turned and looked back at me for a moment. Honestly I just wanted to break down and cry as I sat on fender with my head hanging down. I was heart broken because paradise turned out to be just another place warmer yet as human as any. And it seemed the pleasant weather simply made people abusing people a whole. She had dyed it. It was a natural-looking medium brown with just a few highlighted streaks here and there. She looked smolderingly sexual now. Somehow the toned-down brown hues made her even more sexually attractive than her usual bold red color.She was also dressed in a clean, white, short nurse’s dress. It looked like a real nurse’s dress, not a costume. She wore matching white tennis shoes. I saw no hose or stockings on her. Only her heavily applied makeup made her look other than. At least the gold made more sense than some crazy expeditions looking for the “Fountain of Youth”.The Hollanders knew with that keen sense of business that the name of the game was right there on Manhattan Island. All of the power of the New World would be between the confluence of the two mighty rivers and they would rule the world from that seat of power sending Rome, London and Paris into the dustbins of history. Unfortunately, their national interest was buried in making myopic “deals” for. I did not see him say the words, but I knew it was Gary that had whispered them. When I looked up at him, he looked as if he was about to cry. That scared me. "I'm sorry!" he said and was coming over to me, kneeling down and taking my head in his hands. "It's my fault! Oh Mikey," he covered his face and gasped. "Oh God, I'm so sorry! Please forgive me. I didn't know." "Gary? Please. You're scaring me!" We were forehead to forehead and now he was crying so I took his hands as they clasped my.