This is kind of lame."He grinned. "Maybe I'll come visit you when you're in the bullseye." "Don't you dare," I warned him. "If you hit me with a p...e, I'll neverforgive you!" "Maybe I'll be aiming for another bullseye," he said slyly, as I felt hishand knead one of my cheeks, squeezing it firmly. "Mark!" I squealed. "People can see!" I looked around but the carnival wasso crowded that nobody paid much attention to us, hugging each other off on oneside. "Bye, babe. I told Jerry. And he was there for her. Her elderly parents and the challenges they posed to her at the best of times.They were good friends and, after that morning, even better friends; Lovers!~Ellie was laying her clothes out on her bed as she considered what to wear for her lunch date with an old heartthrob. She and Hank had been each other’s first loves. He was a year older than her and wanted to re-connect after his divorce a few months prior.She wondered about him. He had called her out of the blue. ‘Why are you still here? You probably have somewhere else to be.’ Greg had decided to wait until this girl got off work, and then try to convince her to do something with him, even if he had to wait all day. He looked up at her and grinned. Apparently something about him interested her, which was a good start. ‘What, a guy can’t stay and lounge about a coffee shop for awhile? I thought that was the point of these places.’ Seeing eyes narrow, he hastily continued. ‘However, I was waiting for. Federal auditors did an audit. It was discovered that Billy had made fraudulent loans to himself to cover his home and gambling debts. Billy was sentenced to six years in prison. His and Sandra’s home was confiscated. Sandra and her two children, a boy and a girl, were out on the street with little more then the clothes on their backs. This was the last straw. The things that Sandra once thought were cool, weren’t so cool, when her husband drank too much, chased every skirt in town, and gambled.