I noticed that neither of them had beer since Saturday. I seldom did either, the next days heat taught me not to do so. I was shaving in the morning w...en Olive came in. ‘I need to pee Kyle, you don’t have to move.’ She had a robe on so there wasn’t any real reason to leave. The bathroom is quite large, and the toilet isn’t in line with the mirror. Candy came in and was dancing around, waiting for Olive, they switched places, Olive watched me shave from the hall. Candy flushed and watched from. The rest of the day was uneventful, with the three of us (me, Nate, and Cody) keeping watch over Steve. The bastard just sat there with a smirk on his face. Cody and Nate came over to me by the shelter that night. ‘How’s she doing?’ Cody asked. He added, ‘And you too. You ok?’ ‘The fuck you think she’s doing? She’s really messed up. That cocksucker really had her freaked out. Makes perfect sense to me. I mean, think about it. She’s collecting firewood, she gets jumped, almost gets raped, nearly. The second week of May Marty announced that I had an appointment with a couple of staffers from Governor Bush’s election campaign, but it was to be in the Whip’s office. In some ways this didn’t surprise me; in fact, if they hadn’t wanted to meet with the Whip it would have surprised me more. I took the subway train from my office in Rayburn over to the Whip’s office in the Capitol. What did surprise me, once they had been shown in and we seated ourselves, was when they announced that they. Jessica popped up, “Next time we’ll have some toys for Riley. Don’t be so scarce, Megan.”“Thanks, Jess,” Megan said, hugging her. “Y’all be good.” Jess and I stood side by side watching Megan back out of the drive and take off, then we went inside.“I hope she really is turning herself around, baby,” I said.“I get the feeling she is,” Jess said. “I’d say you can’t stay stupid all your life, but some people do that. But Megan – she has a couple of cute kids. I’d hate to see them suffer because.