Agreed?”Everyone nodded.“OK, flip your cards over,” she said.“Hey, what in the fuck is this?!” Tiffany asked. She pointed from her Jack of D...amonds to Molly’s identical card. Everyone had displayed a face card or an ace.Phil gently extracted the deck from Hailey’s hands and spread them out. The lowest card in the deck was a nine – and there were eight of them.“Pinochle,” he said, chuckling. “It doesn’t use cards lower than a nine. We won’t be playing poker with these. I guess you and Molly need. I was amazed at how much sex appeal she had. I couldn't speak as I drank in her muscular, beautiful body. "Well, do I meet with your approval?" she asked teasingly. I managed to stammer out, "Yes, that outfit looks terrific, Miss Jenkinson." "Please call me Melanie," she said. "I'm not a schoolteacher. I'm a friend who needs help with my house." "OK, Melanie," I answered. "I guess I'll get on with the dusting."I finished with the den about an hour later. "You done?" Melanie called out. "Yes,. ’ ‘You’re very welcome,’ Penelope now began to cry, ‘And I swear to both of you that I’ll do whatever it takes to keep him happy.’ ‘Jeez, come on you guys,’ I groaned, ‘You three keep crying like that and I’m gonna end up having to get my carpets shampooed.’ ‘Oh, you shut up,’ Megan giggled through her tears, ‘Sam was right. Don’t be such an asshole all your life.’ ~~~~~~ ‘I love you, Bryan,’ Penelope said, as we got into bed that night, ‘And I love your family, too.’ ‘I love you, too,’ I. Duane and Laura Nagle introduced themselves and got comfortable in the passenger seat. They were twins, sophomores in the business program at Pontiac and shared an apartment in town. Duane was hoping the service station would pull his car out of the ditch and get them back on the road.The service station was only ten miles away but it took us the better part of thirty minutes to make it there. I had to concentrate on my driving. The blinding snow and the slick road were only part of it, I was.