Tommy waltzed Regina around the room, just as they had practiced all those months ago. Tommy thought back to that time, and whispered into Regina’s ...ar.“Paying you to teach me to dance was the best investment I ever made,” he said.After about an hour of dancing, Betty Lou called a halt to the music for ice cream, cake and presents. Regina blew out the candles on her cake and started opening presents, as Betty Lou and the other adults passed out plates of cake and ice cream. After Regina had. ’ Madame does not come. No one comes. I fall sickeningly into a black hole. There are voices. ‘Serious internal injuries’… ‘Police’… ‘Immediate surgery.’ The ceiling is moving. I am being wheeled somewhere. ‘Count backwards from ten… ‘ ‘Catriona… Catriona, wake up, you are dreaming a bad dream.’ I awake. Dionysus is smiling at me. ‘You were dreaming in a dream,’ he says ambiguously. I do not understand him, and lie looking at him. Within myself I am saying, ‘I love you, I love you.’ There is. Her bikini bottom was little more than dental floss. Her expanse of nearly nude golden brown skin hardened me immediately. I took the single bag of groceries I had and stuffed whole thing into the top shelf of the fridge. Then I pulled off my shoes and socks, pulled off my white polo shirt, pulled off my red running shorts and underwear. Then I slipped on my running shorts. I got 2 tall glasses of ice water and walked out into the backyard to join her.Coming up quietly beside her, I dropped to. As I shut my bedroom door Trefual started talking. "What was all that about?" Stacy's husband killed himself." Excellent! But, that's not what I'm talking about. What I'm asking is "why did you pass out?" "Excellent? You didn't hear me. Stacy's husband killed himself!" I heard you the first time, and again, I say excellent. Now, WHY did you faint?" Fuck, when I heard the gunshot all I could think was that I killed the bastard."Trefual slowly shook his head. "Damn kid, Are you that stupid?" What.