I looked at Virginia and got a smile and a nod also. I then made the mental connection to each of them. We quit when we all agreed we were exceptional...y hungry. To say we were shocked about the passing of the time was an understatement. What we thought was only a couple of minutes turned out to be over three hours and it was now 10:30 AM!Over breakfast at IHOP, while we knew that Linda was an Investment Counselor, we did not realize that she owned her own business and handled several million. Vanessa had chosen an alternative sentence, which sent the media into balls of flame. Theories of where Vanessa was being sent came out, with journalists all over the world interviewing Vanessa's company for their verdict. The coworkers had found themselves hitting the same dead end, with Jessica talking about Vanessa's potential future before they could even write a single article about it.Jessica took a walk back to her apartment that night, feeling great knowing she'd be making thousands. “Good, really good. How about you?”“It was ... alright.” she smiled down at him. The sight of that smile dissipated the tight knot between his shoulders. He wasn’t sure how she would react to the events of the previous night. There didn’t appear to be any regrets on her part. Her phone started to blare out again. She reached over and touched the screen, silencing it, before opening drawers and pulling out fresh underwear. Her walk to the wardrobe appeared to be a little stiff.“Are you okay?”“A. It looked like a dead rat, but Pat knew it would brush out beautifully in the morning.Next, he took his makeup bag into the bathroom and set out its contents. He brought a bottle of coral nail polish back into the bedroom and sat down in front of the TV. Pat had surreptitiously filed his longish nails into feminine shapes during the two hour flight from Chicago, and as he watched the evening news, he applied a single coat of polish to each nail, blowing on them occasionally. When they were dry,.