Two bellboys took their luggage off into the depths of the building."I'm going to call the Ambassador. I expect I'll have to have dinner with him. Why...don't you two eat in the restaurant down here." Oh, Daddy, can't we come with you?" whined Emma in a mocking voice."Don't be silly. Tomorrow night we'll go out together. Be good. You're on the fifth, right, room 507? I'm in 302. Remember that?" Sure, we'll call you in about five minutes" said Lauren, pressing the elevator button.The golden doors. *So my _girlfriend_ is going to bedriving, while I'm trapped in the backseat,* with all _that_ implied,*with some guy who keeps giving me The Look and is so drunk he can'tstand up by himself?!* "Tha'z nize of you," Travis approved. "Oh," smiled Debbie, "no problem." She patted me on the shoulder."No problem," she repeated, staring at me. *You'd better not have aproblem,* her look said. "No problem," I agreed weakly.***21:37 4 Jan "But, Debbie, I-" "Don't worry about it,". She had no spark left in her. She lost weight. Even having Amelia in her life couldn’t compensate for the void in her soul.She knew it, too. On a Thursday evening, she visited me and made a strange request.Seating her in the living room, pouring her some Darjeeling tea - she seemed so frail and chilled now - she turned to me on the couch.“Michael, I don’t know if you know this, but I’m the only family Amelia has left. Harold, bless his soul, had no one left on his side after his younger sister. "Go away," one of them said. "No boys allowed."Then she kissed the other girl and put her fingers down her own pants.I could see Mel in the kitchen talking to Mike and a tall blonde girl. All three were naked and there was a black woman on her knees in from of Mike, sucking his cock."What the fuck is going on?" I said to her.She turned to me, a devious grin on her face."Auditions! It's been awful lonely around here without Allie, don't you think? Thanks for that by the way."The kitchen, I saw.