"Jesus, honey, I don't know what to do. Let me think," I asked.And think I did and I came up with what I thought might be a plan. Since Alex had come ...nto the picture I had started frequenting a local adult theater on Saturdays or Sundays, or when Ann was busy elsewhere or out of town on business. I had seen couples in there a few times and watched them play and sometimes attract a guy into the party."Honey, I have an idea that might fill the void left by your friend," I began one night after. I’m all about balance and my scales need balance.”Claire has no words for it but we say our goodbyes and her boys are happy to see their mom going back to work and not ‘going crazy’ at home. I remind them about helping her out when I note she’s got her cell phone in her hand and is confused.“How did that shit head do it,” Claire growls and I watch her kids retreat upstairs as I smile.“Who do what,” I ask and she looks at me with some anger.“Fucking Weisner, he put 50k in an account in my boys. I love them perky. Up the road a bit form my grandparents’ house was a girl called Jenny. Again I had seen this girl many times before but never actually spoke to her either. I would often see her riding her horse on a nice day and we would salute each other but that was all. She knew who I was and I always got the sense she liked me in some way. She always seemed to stare at me in the same way that I would stare at someone if I liked them which I actually did to her and Lisa. Jenny was only 13. It was a lie, my watch was on my wrist and I immediately hid it behind my back. “Oh thanks so much, I’m so forgetful!” I laughed. I left my bag at the desk and walked to the pool area of the hotel with a returning excitement. The indoor pool was just as hot as the shower. I walked through the glass door into the pool which smelt heavily of chlorine. I scanned the room for that shock of beautiful dark red hair, but to my crushing disappointment, found no one there. I was just about to turn and.