“Do I hear any more!?!” The room was quiet, except for the muffled sounds of women sighing, and with a whack of his gavel Tommy Finch announced, �...�Sold to Marilyn Johnson for the sum of three thousand dollars, the services of Fate James for one night’s pleasure!!!”They all climbed into the big Caddy for the trip back to the Johnson house. Mike Johnson slid behind the wheel while his wife and Fate James crawled into the back seat! Marilyn giggled a little girl’s laugh as she struggled to extract. “No. Should I have?”“We had an uncomfortable talk this morning and her friends haven’t seen her since before breakfast and she missed at least one class.”“Uncomfortable? As in you guys broke up? Oh, no!”‘Oh no!’ was right. Anna’s reaction confirmed what I had suspected — Angie WAS pretending we had a relationship, but even worse, she had told her best friend that we DID have a relationship. But this wasn’t the time to get into THAT.“Has she called you?” I asked.“No. I talked to her on Saturday. ” I had to do the math in my head. “I probably had just turned sixteen. We dated until the summer after I graduated, not quite two years.”“And you were sexually active?”I smiled again. “Very!”“How come she has never come up before?” he asked.“Good question.” I thought for a second, and then snapped my fingers. “Of course! Jeana was a year behind me! When I was a junior, she was a sophomore, and when I was a senior, she was a junior! More than that, though, they built a new high school. Towson. Thanks. Uh. Sorry about the noise. Later."She gave me a little good bye wave. "Don't worry about the noise. I like hearing it."When I told Nancy about finding the Cat on the couch and the weird conversation, she laughed. There are somethings about women that I don't understand. When we got it on again, I think that she was deliberately being noisier that usual. Maybe to needle me; maybe because she knew the Cat was listening to her get her cookies.When we finally called it quits about noon, the.