" Yeah, Dave. So now you've got Ronni staying in your house and now, you say, sleeping in your bed, and she's in love and YOU don't know it, and Dave,...what exactly are you gonna do?" I'm certainly not gonna HURT her, Rena." Then what, Dave?"Just get a gun and shoot me. I said in a low voice, "For gosh sakes, Rena, what am I supposed to do? I'm almost twenty years older than her."Rena stared. "You don't ... you ... there's no chance that you and her ... you love her?" I do. You know pretty well. “Don’t worry,” Keith said. He turned to Bobby and started mumbling something in his ear. All of a sudden Bobby grabbed my hand and said, “It was a pleasure meeting you Miss Nicks,” and he walked past me and back into the studio. It was just me and Keith in the hallway now. I couldn’t help but noticing the atmosphere change. As he edged closer I could smell cigarettes and cologne, a smell not at all unpleasant. I was starting to suspect something. “Can we talk for a minute?” he said, and he. She flung her arms round him and buried her face in his chest as the tears poured again.At length, she looked up. “I-I’m sorry. I-I’ve been in such a state that I haven’t done anything about supper.”“Relax, poppet. We can always have bacon and eggs or something. What you need now is a stiff drink and to come and listen to some soothing music.”She gave him a lop-sided smile and disengaged.Peter poured their drinks and led her to the drawing room and put on a disc of Beethoven’s three best loved. But, most people didn’t really want to hear about it either, even when they asked. They wanted to believe that Kiki was eternal. Sarah might well come to find out that people were discomfited by her very normal history as she found her place in Guy’s world of non-monogamy. It seemed only fair that Kiki warn her. She thought back to the days before she’d accepted the mantle of Kiki and said, “Back in high school before I could decide who I really wanted to be, people decided for me that I was a.