Alexandria reached up for a book. I watched the old lady turn and walk out of view, before turning to face Alexandria and the bookshelf. ‘God, isn�...t she a little creepy?’ I asked as I too reached up for a book. ‘See what we have to look forward to when we get older?’ Alexandria said with a giggle. ‘Not a chance.’ I said as I opened the book to pictures of strange patterns. I took all seven of the books along with the one Alexandria had in her hands. We walked around the library so I could get. Stop wishing and saying sorry over and over. It doesn't help anything! And stop waiting for fate to come along and punish you so it can then forgive you! God doesn't punish the guilty and reward the innocent! That was for stories and books. In the real world, innocents like Carmine pay the price for the guilty like me. I stayed home, free to come and go as I pleased. Carmine was locked up for trying to protect what was his. Hugo got off scott free taking something that didn't belong to him and. As she drove to the plant, she realized that her AT parking sticker had gone with her old Datsun so she had to park in a visitors space.Marching up to the main entrance, she announced herself to the receptionist and asked to see Mr. Morrison and Mr. Miller, or either of them.“Who shall I say is calling?” the receptionist asked, looking up at Dace with a smile.“I’m Candace Kane,” Dacey replied with a warm smile of her own, “and I work here. Or I did, anyway.”The brilliance of her smile coupled. Putting my arm around her waist, I found a pair of lips in close proximity to my own. Does a cat pass-up a sparrow within a paw’s reach? No way - nor was I likely to allow so golden an opportunity to pass unchecked. She tasted even better. Slipping her arms around my neck, she returned my kiss with much the same passion I recall us mustering that day down by the Ohio river. “Yeah, well about that little walk,” I coughed nervously. Another few moments like this and the “do not disturb”.