“Yes, she knew how I was making my extra money. I won’t say she approved, because she would never feel it was an ‘honest way’ to earn money. B...t she knew that I had set my heart on a place of my own, and that I was careful and didn’t spend money on drugs or loads of booze. I had mates that I went clubbing with, but I didn’t get involved with fucking blokes my own age."The school where I’d made my friends and the clubs were a few miles from where we lived, which was just outside the main part of. Be. I think they call it being in the moment. I think she felt a little out of place right then. With a silly grin she said, "I thought you wanted to smoke?" All I can remember is that my vision took all of her poise in while I was looking into her eyes. "What I really want is to ask you for you phone number because I'd like to call you and talk to you about everything in your life. I'd like to get to know you. I didn't want to ask you in front of the entire auditorium, though." Janet asked me. “You don’t talk like that, I mean, regularly.” Tina gave him a skeptical look.Sam shrugged. “I lost the accent back in college; I can gain and lose an accent in a couple of weeks. Hell, when I was your age, I was known as ‘Tex.’ Lee hated it,” he admitted.It was the first time Tina could recall Sam talking about his family. “What was she like, Sam? Do I look like her, is that why you noticed me?” she asked softly.Sam shook his head. “Not even close.” At her questioning look, he expanded. “Well,. "Where?" There! I saw him! The Great Ones enemy! I saw him, he is here! Come!We must vanquish him!"When she stood up and headed for the door I had to stop her, tellingher that she would have to show me the man, or woman, that she calledthe "Evil One," then, she would have to convince me that she wasright. During the next hour of news, her finger touched the screen,and I knew who she meant. The man headed one of the worlds mostdespotic regimes in history, yet nobody was willing to kill him.