Twisting around, she looked through blurred eyes at the alarm clock that sat on the bedside table next to Andrew’s side of the bed. 3:42 Getting out...of bed and feeling the cold night time air in the house assaulting her skin now it was free of the bedcovers, she paused to scoop up her robe from the back of the wardrobe door before moving around the first floor of the house. Moving quietly across the landing, passing the family bathroom, she carefully pushed open the door beyond that and saw the. It all came back to the need for funding. This wasn't something I was going to find a way out of, sitting here in these bleachers, but it would be something to ponder in the future.Ted, Ron, Marcus and a bunch of guys in uniforms tromped off into a conference room set up especially for their meeting. I went back to the hanger we had been assigned, and puttered around for what seemed like hours before Ted, Ron and Marcus entered the hanger. I took it as a very good sign that the three of them. ”Susan gasped. “Jeff, help me. I can’t do that. He is a complete stranger”.“I don’t know what we can do Susan,” Jeff tried to commiserate. “If you don’t do it he will put those pics all over the Internet for your friends and colleagues to see.”“That’s right,” said the stranger. “My name is Jim and we have now met, so I am not a stranger.”Susan’s shoulders slumped. She could see no way out of this and meekly got up and followed Jeff and Jim to the elevator. They stood each side of her and she. Dusty would, therefore, be the last one to sing.Brenda was the first performer and did a reasonable version of a country and western song. Her applause, thereafter, was very polite. Two male staff members followed her, and the second one of these guys got a really hearty applause. They were then followed by two ladies, both of whom did good versions of the ballads they had chosen to sing.When Dusty got on the stage she had decided to perform the first number on the stick. After the dramatic.