"Now get away and let me get on with my work," she added smiling.I stored the rifle and the other items in the false backed cupboard I had found the r...fles and rode into town to perform my Justice of the Peace duties.Today I had to sit on the bench and I walked in, towering over all the people milling around at the courtroom door. I could almost read the minds of some of the people staring at me, wondering if I would be lenient, or hard on anyone brought before me. As instructed by Gerald I had. "Hey, Mom." Alyssa, why didn't you call," she worried at me, "your father would have been more than willing to pick you up from the bus stop. The hardware store isn't that busy this time o' day." "I know, Mom," I replied slightly breathlessly after my jog. "I wanted to walk, though. It seems like it’s been years since I walked home from town. Besides, my skin could use a little sun after being locked in my dorm studying last term." I smiled as she brought me in for a welcoming hug. "Well, okay. "So she kept driving, a little faster than I was comfortable with. She drove through a neighborhood I had never seen, and we ended up at a large house, distant from the others, at the end of a tiny street. She walked up to the house, and I followed her willingly, although confused. She unlocked the door and went in, telling me to stay in the foyer. I heard her fumbling with some things, and she came back, with something in her hand I couldn't quite see. She motioned for me to follow her up a. The music kept going off and there had been very little chat from her since the stripper had been on. She spent most of the time behind the DJ stand sat on her butch leather boyfriend‘s knee, snogging the face off him. Nobody seemed to mind.I was taking a tray of drinks over to one of the tables when Chantelle called me over with an unusually worried look on her face."Babe, it seems that the other stripper has buggered off, he sent a note down with his cowboy mate, he said he didn’t feel too.