May didn't look at Jim directly when she said, "I'm sorry that you took the two weeks Jim, I won't be able to go with you." Jim was stunned, they had ...een planning this all year. "Why not?" he asked. "I didn't plan this Jim, but I've started seeing someone else now. I am sorry." May said. Jim wanted to know if he knew the guy. May said that he did. Jim sat for a moment more,then without a word he got up and walked out of the Soda Fountian. He heard May call after him but as far as he was. "Jack wasn't the type to just back down. He was a negotiator by trade."You want to bike or you'll look uncool. I want to take you or I'll bebummed. I'll take you part way, then you ride the rest. We'll eventake back roads to avoid detection."Bo grinned to herself. He was being sarcastic, but it was a good pitch.She put on a puppy dog face and in her best "Aw, man..." voice mumbledacceptance.Jack didn't buy it, and blew her a raspberry kiss. They went. She didn't quite shatter completely, but she is broken.She sees herself as property. She belongs to Eckert and she likes it that way. She doesn't have to make the big decisions she's scared of, or worry about tomorrow. Instead she can just deal with everything as it comes, enjoying every minute of life. She acts independently to help others because her owner wants her to.In the short term, for her situation, this is a valid survival tactic and will help keep her alive. Long term, it creates. “I’m still not used to calling you that. But the point isn’t that I want all men to disappear. I just want to be able to be everything that I can be, and not have to beg a man to do it.”“I get it,” said Will. “Maybe you should join the Army. I met lots of women in the Army who are doing the same things as men, and getting paid the same too.”“I don’t think so,” said Erica. “Look what the Army did to you.”“Bad luck,” said Will shortly. “That’s all.”They had let it lie there. They had watched TV.