My fiancée Vladik, even though he's a cop and Victor's nephew, still has to come over to dinner on Sunday afternoons and formally court me. Even thou...h I'm just a meth head and a criminal, he's still gotta do it. I never did anything formal in my life before I left America. But, now here I'm having to do all that formal courting stuff, just like any one else." Shit." It's not that bad, really." Well, it doesn't sound all that good."In a lot of ways their protocol makes things easier. The. "You didn't forget." She stated the fact. How could I? The only reason I included Belgium in my trip was to visit that very special chocolatier who made the best blend of dark chocolate candy. We visited his shop on our honeymoon and my wife fell in love with those delicate aromatic chocolate jewels. Whenever I could, I returned there on my trips and purchased large boxes of her favorite candy.My wife tried to teach me how to appreciate the candy. How to recognize the distinct flavors, how to. The wife thought it a good idea also so I accepted th e offer The following wednesday after work I drove over had dinner with the aunties family had a shower and headed out for a long awaited night with my old pals.The night went on longer than expected and I arrived back at the house with my head alre.ady starting to regret drinking so much. The next morning I woke up with a mother and father of a headache and not thinking of where I was I jumped up to run to the bathroom wearing just boxer. I was so busy planning Toby's network and considering what it meant to me financially that I did not dwell on much else. I still had not landed in Kansas City when back home the phone rang and when Monica answered it was Toby. He told her that if she had any problems while I was gone that she could call on him and then he asked her if she would care to join him for dinner that night. She had hesitated a moment and then had said no, that she didn't think she should, but Toby kept talking to her.