‘Good luck, sweetie,’ Dena said with a bittersweet smile. ‘Knock ’em dead.’ ‘Thanks,’ Sharon said, wearing the same smile. A moment late..., ‘Charlene’ slid through the curtains, enticing, predatory. Her body pulsed and writhed with her music, commanding the wandering attention of the half-drunk men in the audience and at the rail. She enjoyed dancing. She knew what her body did to men. She had learned early enough what it did to her father. Like magic, dollar bills began appearing on the rail.. " "That's true," Sharon said, "and he even fiddled my timesheets so I didn't lose any pay." "It was all the more praiseworthy," Lindsay said, "because Sharon's mother died five years ago." "What!" Stevie exclaimed, dangerously twisting her head round as she drove, to stare at Sharon. "You lied to Leonard about your mother's death, in order to get time off work?" Sharon shifted uncomfortably. "I didn't actually lie," she said. "I simply said she'd died on Saturday. Well, she had - only it was a. It made me wonder if this girl that he was falling for was the reason for his crying, clearly if that is the case she cant be that nice of a girl. I placed my hand carefully on his shoulder, he was still in just his underwear so he was cold to the touch. As I placed my hand on his shoulder he turned to look at me and all I could see was the hurt in his eyes along with the tears staining his cheeks and streaming from his eyes. As he looked at me it seemed to get worse, almost like I was the. "That's easy," Gwen explained, "after I saw Naomi paint the wall pearly white I knew what was going to happen next. You know the feeling, Kate? When you know that the game is over, like Shakespeare said, 'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.' I was just a player in a much bigger scene that was going to take place in my house." I think I know what you mean Gwen." Kate smiled."I ripped my dress off and laid my back on the floor, spreading my legs as wide as I could,.