I continued to work out at the gym and run the laps at the soft ball field as I had done the last five months. During those months I heard from Kara a...couple of times, but I stopped seeing her at all. Running for sheriff meant more to me than getting off big time. I had years in mind not minutes.Three days before the elections I walked out the back door of the pub and he was waiting for me. I had been expecting him. "Mateo, you don't want to do this." I said."I have to," he said sadly."Mateo I. He said that maybe she should start charging ME for the privilige of doing anything to her, even if it was just lapping her pussy. She thought that was terrific idea but pointed out that she already took all of my money and gave me only a miniscule allowance. Kurt took a better look at the ridiculous underwear I had on and snorted derivisvly. He said that, since I couldn’t pay for being allowed to touch her, maybe I could do something else, like shine his shoes or wash his car. She thought that. "I reached across the table and took his hand, "What do you want Matt?" Well, for it to never have happened, for starters, O.M.," he laughed.He took a sip of his tea, "but I think we should agree."Fi did not look best pleased. No, she looked angry and crossed herarms. "I don't understand, Matthew, why you would want to let him dothis." I reached for her hand to console her and she begrudginglyaccepted it.Matt took a deep breath, "I'm tired. I'm tired of everything. I wantthis to be over. It was Emma that stunned us both into silence. She came down from her room wearing a dress. Not just any dress a proper full on clingy, sexy mini-dress that hugged her slim figure and made her look an urbane adult. It wasn’t her usual plain black but alternate wide horizontal stripes of royal blue and grey and she was wearing it over black three quarter lace leggings, but this outfit was three steps up from her normal choices and I guessed that Gwen had had a hand in choosing it. She had.