An unusually deep male voice answered and as I described what I wanted to do he asked knowledgeable questions and made some very nice suggestions maki...g me feel comfortable in the knowledge that my precious home would be taken care of by a professional. We decided to meet at my apartment later that week so I could show him in detail what I wanted. – – – – – At the designated time, I walked up to my home, looked outside of the building but couldn’t see any obvious builder/handyman-dressed. Soon the self-mummified Kate flopped onto thepadding besides Jessica. Kate was so uptight she wondered if she couldsleep a wink that night, but somehow she managed it. The prod had servedits purpose.Some hours later, Jessica rose silently from the bed as if by aninternal alarm clock. She sat outside waiting until for the moon to reacha particular point on the horizon. For many weeks previously she hadstudied the night sky and began to understand the moon’s movements.It was around two hours. It was almost a reprise of my conversation with Elyse.“Shh! You’re making a scene! I kissed her hand. That’s all.”“A scene? Hah! That was you! If what you did wasn’t a request to have sex with her, I don’t know what would be! And that was after you made me tell you I was interested. Well, you can FORGET IT. I wouldn’t let you touch me if my life depended on it!”“May I at least sit in your booth?”“No!” she spat angrily. “I don’t even want to talk to you!”“I did say I was sorry. I’ll go sit over. . 'A perfect Ozzie Osbourne vocal, or so it seemed to me.I floated along on my magic carpet through the crowds of shoppers in the city centre. A group of teenage girls, taking up the whole pavement as teenagers do, came strolling towards me. I thought I recognised one of them and stretched out my arms in preparation for a group hug.They were absolute strangers and parted like the Red Sea with comments like, 'wanker, pervert,' and 'it takes all sorts.' Words that reminded me of my unhappy high.