His smile gives him away and he apologizes. She lets him know it’s okay and gets up to roll another one. Dirty observes her naked body as she walks ...round her room collecting supplies to get them high. He finds it so fascinating that she is so comfortable being naked in front of him being that it is they just met. She doesn’t peg him as a working girl- she seems so cultured and classy. She is well spoken and has manners. Little did he know Chayne was good at pretending to be stable and hiding. "Did you stay here all night?" No," she said. "I went home, and tried to sleep. But I was too worried about you, so I tossed and I turned..." Shaking her head, she added. "Finally, I drove back out here. You were in there for 13 hours, you know." Long time," I said.She nodded. "Long for me. You got to sleep through it."I yawned. "Not much of a sleep. So who's your friend?"She looked down at the bear in her lap, and made a face. "Oh, it was waiting here when I got back." She grabbed an envelope.. If it interfered with starting his business, he would drop out. He asked, “Who do I talk to about joining up?”Eric gave him a name and a number to call. Dan repeated it, to make sure that he had gotten it right. After the exchange, Eric said, “I’ll see you after the New Years.”“Sure,” Dan said, hoping he wasn’t making a mistake.When Tom and Alison returned home for the Christmas holidays, Dan took them to the store. Entering it, he gestured around the empty space and said, “Here’s the future. I want you to keep up your strength. You will hurry home from class, won't you?"I nodded a yes and wondered just how I was going to be able to keep my strength up in order to stay up with mom and Roxy. I was going to have to come up with some way to get mom a few customers just to keep the pressure off me. And I knew that there was going to be a lot of pressure if yesterday were any indication. Mom said she had gone without sex for over a year and it sure did look like she was trying to make up.