Even an idiot could tell he was broadcasting his desire to get laid. I frankly wasn’t much in the mood. I was tired from cleaning and packing and hi... antics of the evening were certainly no a way to get a girl in the mood. Brett and Mandy seem nonplussed and announced they would be retiring. I showed them to the bedroom. When I returned I found Nick on my bed in his boxers. He patted the bed next to him in invitation. ‘You know we have to get up early in the morning, Nick.’ I said looking for a. "I bought a rifle and a scope. I was hoping I could get you to mate them and zero the scope in for thirty yards or so." I said."You have to know where you want it Silvie. The parallax view will cause it to be off at any other range." he said."Make it thirty-five yards then and I will guesstimate the rest," I said."My advice go with the SWAG system," he said."Yeah Scientific Wild Ass Guess," I agreed."Do you have it with you," he asked.I opened the back of the car and took the rifle out. "Here. Her back was to him and he could see her craning her neck as she looked for her dark-haired friend. Now that he’d found her he stood motionless for a few seconds. ‘What am I going to say,’ he thought. He could hardly walk up behind her, tap her on the shoulder and say, ‘Hello, I saw your friend desert you. Can I be of any service?’ And what if she didn’t recognize him in the darkness? He sure as hell almost hadn’t recognized her. But, he reminded himself, that was only because she looked. Now let me tell you about being a "helper" I started out supplying one mason with bricks and "mud". That was easy. Pretty soon I was supplying two masons, then three, then four.Now I was working, but I was also growing. Soon I was turning my baby fat into muscle. It took all summer but I was doing great until one day I was introduced to cement blocks. Those suckers were heavy!With bricks I could always lighten my load by reducing by a couple of bricks the amount I was carrying. With cement.