You are one lucky shit.”“Yeah, I am Ronnie ... I really am.” I agreed as we walked into the junior high building.“Hey pretty lady you need a r...de?” I said, as I pulled up beside Melissa where she stood near the driveway, close to her building.“Yes kind Sir. I hope you’re going my way ... but then wherever you’re going is fine with me.”“You’re so beautiful, Melissa. I really think I’m about to fall in love with you.” I said as she sat beside me.“I feel the same way. Danny. I hurt when I’m away. I finish up, reel around to see the naked figure slumped against the cistern, his legs splayed around the commode, the insides of thighs dark with sticky blood. His head rests against the side of the stall, hair falling in his face. Perfectly sculpted muscles do not move, there is no breath. His lips are red, a lipstick slack smile drawn in the blood which flows readily from his heart. Toffee coloured eyes meet mine and I sweat he blinks. Dead but blinking. There is a gash in the side of his. The tribal elders got together and prayed to the ancient gods, Bathala the Chief god of the Tagologs and Lakam Pati the god of Abundance, to heal the tribe. The gods made a bargain with the elders. If the elder women and their daughters and their daughters-daughters throughout the ages would become servants to men, the gods would purge the sickness from the tribe. ” Gidget spoke so seriously about it, Bree stayed silent just nodding her head in agreement. “So Bree’s ancestor was an elder woman. In any event, she did not know that I was home, that I was out of sight on the couch, and that I was merely fifteen feet away.My wife said, “Welcome home sexy girl. What did you do with my three pounds of carrots? I was planning on using them to make a raison carrot salad. Go get them.”Ingrid said, “Can’t! I used them.”My wife laughed and said, “I know that! Now go get them. I’ll wash them off, peel them, and feed them back to you. Hey, you get to eat your sex toys. How wonderful is.