You can be friendly, and you neverknow, who might take your hand in friendship," Valerie said, amazingherself and Sabrina. "Things don't have to be li...e this. (Valeriecontinued). You can try being nice to people. You might be surprised athow they react to you too."Libby stared, confused and dazed by this turn of events, of Valerie takingcharge. And Valerie's words seemed to hit her hard."Um, yeah, sure, I guess...see you guys later..." and Libby turned andwalked away, looking back at them, over. Suzy had a hearty bone broth and veggie soup, cornbread, and chicory coffee waiting for me. After lunch, I sat down in what I called my command chair and started settling in for a well-deserved nap. Nope.Suzy mentioned in passing that I should call Paul in Elk City and let him know we were alright. I sat for a moment, savoring my closed eyes. “Matt, call Paul, now.” henpecked. That’s what I was.Powering up the radio and getting it tuned in took a couple of minutes. When everything was warmed. "She's mentioned you a lot." "Since high school." Simon tried to ignore the foot. "I've gotta ask you something, then." When Simon nodded, Ron continued, "Have you ever seen the scar on her leg?" Simon felt himself tense up but tried not to show it. "I saw a little, once. I was with her when it happened." Ron gave him a conspiratorial grin. "I gotta say, I hope I don't see all of it. I accidentally saw her leg the other night, and my God, it looked like alligator skin or something." Simon tried. Anyway babe that’s some shopping list, at least we haven’t got to worry about money forever have we?” I said “have you ever had champagne before, it’s nice isn’t it” Tammy said “it was really nice, but do me favour before I forget or can’t stand up, lock the doors babe” this I did and pulled the curtains turning on the lights Tammy look even more beautiful, tipping her another drink she said “if I have an hangover tomorrow I going to fuck the ass off you all-night and your Toby will be worn.