I figured to turn Mary loose on the women once they were used to living here. She could convince them if anyone could.Each family ate their own meals....This was a treat for everybody but Mary and me. The ex-serfs were now able to eat what they wanted and not what some overseer thought was suitable for a lowly serf. As the saying went, the overseers ate high off the hog, and the serfs got what was left. As a result, all of the new arrivals put on a little weight.We now had three families, so I. "I'm scared, Reggie."Suddenly, Reggie felt really bad about the way he'd been acting. Sure,Leslie had been being a bitch, but that was no reason to flip out ather like that. And seeing the way that Leslie was trying to fight backtears... Reggie could tell that she was really scared, and most girlshe knew would be completely losing it if they were in the samesituation. But Leslie was trying so hard to be brave. He took a quickstep toward Leslie, and wrapped her in a fierce yet gentle hug.. It wasn’t hard. Larry liked to show off his good-looking girlfriend to his friends, and it didn’t take those friends long to pick up the signs that signalled her availability. Funny how those friends would ‘happen to be in the neighborhood,’ on days when Larry was at work or out of town on business. She also started going back to visit some of Ted’s old friends, at least the ones she liked, especially Matt, who was still her main source for cocaine and weed. And she was coked to the max on New. ”, she claimed. I didn’t want to go into any further details about the issue so I tried to steer the conversation into another direction. But without fault, she kept pressing at the subject. After about another 35 minutes had passed by, I finally told her that I had to go. “You know you are more than welcome to come and visit anytime you want.”, she said. Thinking nothing of it, I ran on with the rest of my day. What would happen two days later would alter my course with what I thought sounded.