He put an elbow on his knee and leaned his forehead into that hand, thinking intensely with his eyes closed. Finally he looked up, his eyes locking wi...h Cindy's."You never for a second really believed that we'd be able to 'love Amanda back to health', to get her to stop being masochistic." he stated.She held his gaze for a moment."No." she agreed. "Emotionally, I really hoped we could. Making an intellectual judgment based on the facts, I'd say it was too late by a year when I first learned she. The other girl who lived with us, Valeria, always seemed locked up in her room. She was petite and I was jealous of her extremely large breasts that she always seemed to be covering up with sweaters. She hid from the world behind raven black hair and almost always wore boots which I found rather odd considering the heat wave that we had been having."So, we're having a party!" announced Amy as I came home from the supermarket, my arms stuffed with groceries and a letter in my mouth. "mmk tht. You should have seen them. We ownedthat room, and I was on cloud nine. I've always stood in Susan's shadow,until last night. And I have you to thank for that."She starts weeping as she say's "and I went and fucked it all up lastnight."Jennifer's words hit me like a ton of bricks. How would I feel if theposition was reversed?The money is not an issue, we both know Susan will pay for anything wewant, no questions asked, but what about the pecking order? Have Ireally become Jennifer's equal? And. I noticed a man approaching me, he looked quite old, but was about sixty I suppose, he was tall and had whiskers down the side of his face, which looked quite angry."Oh foolish boy, you have tasted the serpent of Eden's apple and are doomed!" he said, "How could you allow yourself to be tainted by that Jezebel?"From the way he was stalking up to me I started to feel afraid, but then I realised that here anything could happen, like a pool of mud in the man's path, I concentrated and was happy to.