She told me, very early in our relationship, that the prospect of loss was exactly why she had steered away from getting involved in the past. We had ...utually decided to risk it, but still hadn't actually tied the knot. Things had improved, somewhat, since she had left the uniform division. Early on, as Constable or Officer Okogba, she had been on the front lines, driving a cruiser around by herself. In our area, cops didn't have partners, like they do on TV. Apparently, we were better off than. To my great luck I had met Helene, a single mom who had been dumped by her husband of three years. She and her son had moved into my house four years ago and I had been very happy together with her. We had been talking about a wedding, children and adopting her son Oscar.Depending on the circumstances my dear Helene now had very limited chances to avoid being dumped. I decided to wait a while to see if she regretted and confessed her cheating with some sane explanation of been drugged and. " Finally able to speak, Jenny asked, "Do you have to, you know....," "You mean do it in front of everyone," finished Charlie? She nodded her head yes. "Ofcourse not," he answered, "you don't have to do anything you don't want to do, nobody willpressure you to do anything, it's entirely up to you!" "Let's get a drink," he offered, leading overto the open bar. While sipping her rum and coke, Jenny took a more leisurely look around theroom. "Well Charlie was right about one thing," she thought,. Living down her earlier reputation. I didn't know if Lisa and Rita even knew about Kate and Clara. "That way you couldn't eat all their pop corn or hog their candy." I tried to recover, but one look at Kate's stricken face told me that I'd failed miserably. Rita didn't seem to get it, but Lisa's face had turned all red. She got it all right. I felt lower than a snake's belly. I wished there was some way I could take that thoughtless sentence back."Take us back to Lisa and Rita's house, Larry. I.