The walls had a fancy wood wainscot below the painted plaster walls above it. The ceiling was also plastered with fancy plaster moldings on the walls ...round the room just below ceiling height. There were rugs on the polished wooden floor.A large bed dominated the room with night stands on either side of it, and a chest at its foot with extra blankets. There was a small dining area off to one side and a dresser for clothing storage with a bowl and pitcher for washing up on top of it along with a. "I'll put this away for later," she said."Are you ill?" I asked. "Not feeling well? Or is it simply exhaustion?" It's just the usual," she said and placed her hand on her belly. "Do you know how frustrating it was to work 'til eleven ... running up against a brick wall over and over again, only to realize we found a bug in some vendor's code? Kyle spent the entire morning convincing them they had a problem." Then he let you go for the afternoon. Will you have a fix tomorrow?" We'll be lucky if. " Yes, Mother," said Clare quietly, leaving the room, Alan trailing along behind."Look at them," they heard one of the adults say. "Two complete innocents, knowing nothing of the nastiness of the world."Reaching her room, Clare flung herself inside and dropped onto a chair. "Don't sit there," she snapped, as Alan went to sit on the bed. "The springs are set up to squeak if you sit or lie on the bed and my mother would be up here like a shot to see why we're on the bed." Must be rough trying to. " Well, you don't seem it and you sure didn't sound it. Was that Julia you were talking to? Your girlfriend?"One nice thing about my sister, there are many more, she's really a nice person, it's that she's a good listener."My ex-girlfriend. What a bitch. I went over there and there she was up in her room and Tom Forner, well, you don't know him, probably, big, hot football player is fucking her like there's no tomorrow. And she's yelling out all this stuff, I could tell it wasn't the first.