Then we go upstairs, have breakfast and afterwards, while Les is cleaning up the kitchen, I get out yesterday's paper and start reading the want-ads. ...es wants a sales job so I circle those, whether they are for selling cars, insurance, door-to-door, whatever. We are still at it when Lucy gets home. She makes soup and egg sandwiches for lunch. Afterwards, we are sort of at loose ends so Les and I go for a walk. It's a warm day and to cool off, we grab a milkshake at the DQ beside the park.. After a while though when the lights dimmed and the music filled the room with soft warm sounds, and she started to kiss me, and so lovingly and gently touch me, and run her fingertips all up and down my neck and back. I held her face in my hands, like a nervous bird, barely touching her, and kissed her lips and felt her tongue slip in and slide over mine. I was filled with a thrill I had not felt in a very very long time, not since Cynthia had I felt this sensation of complete rapture. I was. I wanted to buy a house. I had no idea what kind of house or where it might be I just wanted to own something.I had Swamp Things payment for the Miami affair. I kept it in a different place, away from the liquor money. I did not know whether they intended to report it or not. I wasn't sure that they wanted records of any part of that operation. In any event I had plenty of money from my moonshine business to worry about first. After I had all that taken care of I might worry about the Swamp. After I’d bought the condoms and we were walking back to the house there is an awkward silence, so I decide to ask, “Why’d you want me to buy condoms?” She just giggles and says, “Why do you think?” and kisses me on the cheek.After dinner some more of my family came over, cousin’s I didn’t even know, so me and Catherine didn’t have any time alone until about 1am, when everyone went to bed. Catherine just said to me “My room in five minutes.” So I went to the toilet and dropped a few things off.