And what about my job? George will be expecting me back on Monday. How long am I going to be here? I need to get back.” “We know this may be hard...for you to understand or accept right now, but you can’t go back. Michael does not love you, he used you. George has no use for you other than to use you as well, and turn you into a prostitute. By now, they have already realized you are gone. All those things Michael had done to you were done for his pleasure only, and to break you down and make you. "Gymnastics. Tami and Robbie must have arranged it with the coach when they talked to him about getting me back on the team.Friday was still peaceful. Not one teacher threatened me, though Mr. Singara gave me a dirty look on general principal.That night Robbie and her dad, Tami, and I had dinner with the Bradleys.I'd talked to Mr. Bradley a little before the concert, but now I had a chance to get to know him. He had a crude sense of humor, and I learned several new dirty jokes that could come. I saw Marcia and her mom engaged in an animated conversation which I was sure was unpleasant. I weighed whether I should interrupt, and decided I should. I walked over to them.“Excuse me, Mrs. Ingles?” I said.“What do YOU want?” she asked angrily.“To apologize for the way I spoke to you. It wasn’t befitting my rank nor basic common courtesy.”“What!” Marcia gasped. “Don’t apologize to her!”“Whatever else happened,” I said gently, “I had no right to speak to your mom in anger. I need to apologize. I saw on the news last weekend some of the tourist beaches, like Bondi were shut down, but that hasn’t happened here and I don’t think that would happen here at my sleepy little town…. but who knows what next week will bring.In Alex’s message on Monday, he suggested that whatever my pool routine was, I should just keep that schedule and go over to his and Adam’s place and work on my strokes…. replace my pool exercising with some sexercising. They are both working from home because of the.