" I'm just one of the girls tonight," I said. "Ok, we'll take the car ... they have valet," said Rhonda. The tone ofmy voice must have given my true f...elings away. We started walking back towards the parking garage. Edith and Rhondawere in the lead, while Monica and I trailed. We went about a quartermile or so without saying anything. I then noticed Monica and I wereholding hands. I don't know who took whose hand first, but it was quitelow key and really quite nice. She had been aggressive all. She was only a year and 2 months older than me, which made us 25 and 26. Neither of us had kids, we graduated from college a year apart, and while she worked for an advertisement company, I had just landed a nice finance job at a prestigious and well known company in the area, which was the reason for my move down here to L.A. We had a lot in common, including our body shapes and dress sizes. We even joked about how we could be like sisters and share clothes. She talked about growing up in L.A,. "Your Captains of Industry will need their intelligent sons to run their Industries, their idiot sons will be elected to high office and ruin the country." If it weren't for the highly educated bureaucrats in the government, the idiots would ruin the country.And then greed raised it's ugly head. Government offices that should be concerned with the betterment of the people were slowly being taken over by men who could be bought.Drugs that were effective and cheap were being replaced by drugs. ’ I replied. ‘Aase you must speak up. What if we are pursued, how would you run?’ He said. But his words were tender. He knew that this had been a trying day for me. ‘I am sorry…’I began. ‘Come. I will carry you. It is not far.’ He said. The spot he had chosen was well hidden. There was plenty of brush that hid our spot. He built a small fire with some twigs and a box of matches. ‘I am sorry we have nothing to eat. Tomorrow we shall dine on dried fish and flatbread. I think there is also some.