Especially long term. I had been completely honest with her, I never wanted her to leave my side if I could do anything about that. I wanted her to mo...e in tonight and never leave. But we both had jobs, and sometimes my job ran to all kinds of crazy hours. I had the barest of epiphanies, but needed more data."Anna?" Hrm?" She was holding my hand in her lap, her other hand tracing the veins on the back."Do you like your job? You've always called it your 'shitty job' before, but last week when we. There was a DANCERS! ad on page two. I was looking at it, and fantasizing a little.The hostess sat down in the chair beside me. "Thinkin' about enterin' honey?" Huh? Oh no, just daydreaming."The hostess looked to be about 40 years old. "I used to dance there. That's where I met her father," she said, pointing to a snappy blonde in her early twenties. "She won again last week. Fourth time this year. I used to win real regular too until a few years ago. I still enter sometimes when they need an. .. realistically, will they? Will the radio stations play songs that don't involve you being accompanied by distorted guitars and heavy drum beats?" I make music, Pauline," he told her. "It's what I do and I'm good at it. There might be some kind of backlash from the hard-core Intemperance fans, but I think I'll pick up enough new fans to replace them. There is a precedent for this." There is?" she asked."Robert Plant," Jake said. "His solo stuff is very different from classic Led Zepplin, yet. He opened it to see the postman there.“Parcel for Lizzie Lawson,” the postman said.“Yeah, she lives here.”“Sign here please.”Jacob signed for the parcel, and closed the door. It wasn’t too large, although it had some bulk to it. He walked through to the kitchen, where Lizzie was sat in her dressing gown eating her breakfast.“Parcel,” he said.“Ooo yay!” Lizzie said, taking it from him. “I’ve been waiting for this.”“What is it?”“A thing I ordered online,” she said, opening it up. “I like.