”“I beg your pardon?” Aunt Mary asked.“This one,” he held up a bright yellow and blue capsule, is not authorised for prescription in the UK,...except in very closely monitored clinical trials, and the other one, is just plain outright banned.”“Banned?” I asked.“We call it the zombie drug in the trade,” he said. “if someone has been feeding these two to Cal, then they are in very deep trouble. One of them is only generally available as a compound to pharma companies, as a precursor to other. The actions John and I were responsible for could easily put our company out of business. Our reputation in this business was certainly greatly damaged. Based on this and with my father's full consent and knowledge, he had no choice but to terminate my employment immediately. I was stunned, shocked and speechless. My father looked at me and asked if Early knew. I hung my head and quietly responded, yes. I told him I wanted to explain and he responded that now was not the time or place. He. Yuck she thought, picking it up gingerly, removing the clear plastic and balling it up in her hand, before entering the house so the water wouldn’t drip and leave a knowing trail on the hardwood floors. Laying the paper out on the kitchen table, padding over to the counter, she opened the coffee maker and dumped yesterday’s coffee grounds and the balled-up plastic bag in the garbage. Note to self, add coffee filters, as she grabbed a pen to write it on the shopping list stuck on the fridge. It was exciting." "Yes I remember too." Jim added. I looked at Jim for a long moment. "It's dinner time, would you like to have dinner and then we can talk about whose room we're going to after we eat." I was smiling at him. "You bet. Let's eat." Jim was beaming a brilliant smile my way. At that moment I realized that he was a very handsome man. I don't remember thinking of how he looked at anytime we were talking. We asked the barman for menus and placed our orders to be eaten in the main.