Now, even the laggards were finishing the five mile circuit in time for breakfast. This gave everyone a feeling of accomplishment along with the impro...ement in physical fitness.Breakfast was a time of congeniality with the exchange of anecdotes, jokes, little white lies to embellish the stories and good natured kidding of all. This was a most enjoyable time of day with all present. It provided the perfect opportunity to schedule meetings and assignations. I tried to keep Deb near to take notes,. .. or overwhelming firepower.My gut was dead certain that the pair of both official and private armies of investigators was going to be combing the entire area with a fine toothed comb and I just had to pray that someone smarter than me wouldn't find something from the crime scene or our living witness to incriminate me.Speeding ever faster down the canal, I now had to trust to chance and that alone told me that I was pretty much screwed. She's a very fickle bitch and she doesn't much like me. " she was restating something I had already known, but i nodded and tried to look interested, like i was hearing something new. We were riding the elevator up to the 16th floor, "So, you don't seem to work much, how cn you fford an apartment up here?" I asked. "Well I'm up here for college, my father is paying for my college, and also my apartment expenses.When we came to her apartment she looked at me strangely before sliding the key into the keyhole. Her apartment was rather clean, her dark. He keeps his sleeves pulled over his hands, most likely nervous about track marks and sores, and chews on his lip when hes not talking. He has dark bags under his eyes, and mentions not having slept for a few days. After weve spent a long time talking about nothing and staring at each other, we both run out of things to say, and I glance at his backpack, which seems packed full. Do you have a place to stay tonight, Curtis? I ask softly, my mind racing and confused. I shouldnt let a junkie stay.