I'll have to showit to you." Hopefully in my apartment!Gayle nodded. "I'd like that," she said. We were both quiet for amoment. Gayle spoke again: "Lo...k, your clothes are saturated. I'd hateto send you home like that. Why don't you let me throw them into thewashing machine and have them ready for you when you leave?"I was at a loss for words! What would I wear? Not that I would mindsitting naked with her, but it was still fairly early in our friendship.Gayle noticed my anxiety and laughed. "I. I’ve been at a complete loss about how I could compensate her for being complacent and not doing as I should. I was so focused on Becky that I didn’t pay enough attention. Ellen is in a whole other world altogether. Many in Ellen’s family feel great remorse about Ellen getting left alone to die out in those woods when her father got killed. David, she scares the shit out of them, just as her father did. They know there is no point in trying to apologize. Talk to Ellen. See if she would be. "You didn't do anything, it is part of what you have to go through, that is the only reason," Hagen said as he turned and strode away, his heavy footfalls fading in the distance as Nicolas broke into tears."You need to get up and moving," Helga said the following day after checking him over as she had every morning since the beating."I don't think so, not yet," Nicolas said in a forlorn voice of one who has given up hope."Nonsense, come," she said, taking his hand and pulling him upright on. You look great!” Nora was stunned at how Thomas had matured. As she thought back to when she dated him she remembered him as a small skinny kid. He was actually a little shorter than she was back then but he was also a year younger too. She liked him because he had a cute face and was always nice to her. They had the usual young teen relationship that consisted of a little tongue kissing and some light petting. She was impressed at how Thomas had grown up. They all walked back to the bar and.