‘We wait,’ I said, and rummaged through my bag for a bottle of laudanum. ‘Oh! My!’ Bradford said when he read the nomenclature on the bottle�...s label. ‘Going the whole hog, I see.’ ‘Hang for a penny, hang for a pound. She’ll believe I sold her soul to the Devil anyway. Use a teaspoon of it at a time, every four hours, less as time passes. It will help her sleep and dull the pain. It’s a mix of opium and alcohol. Do not leave her alone with the bottle!’ I warned him. ‘Addicting?’ He asked. ‘She. ’ I continued: ‘All I needed to do was set a trap for the Silverfish, who thought he could really humiliate me by hitting the bank he thought I was not at, while I sat at the bank he thought I was sitting at… a trap which we effectively sprang upon you tonight.’ I leaned forward. ‘Now why don’t you come correct and talk. I’ll get you the best deal I can, and maybe I can keep you alive long enough to do your time and get out.’ ‘Plead the Fifth now, don’t say anything more.’ said the lawyer.. Bryce and Glenda could sense the tension between Jessie and Bjorn but had no real idea on how to solve the problem. Jessie had told her mother what Bjorn had told her as soon as her mother was awake and her mother had told Bryce. Everyone was now up to speed on things but none of that was helpful in dissolving the tension. Glenda and Bryce just thought it best to keep out of it and let these two kids sort their relationship out themselves. On that basis Bjorn was left to quietly follow on. Sex with Leo, however, was well worth the aggravation. Unbeknownst to me, the two of them had fallout months later, and snivelling Cooper informed Leo’s religious family about his relationship with me. That is when all hell broke loose, and the ‘unpleasant’ experience that the title of this story alludes to, came to pass. At work one Friday afternoon, two policemen entered the furniture store that I managed at three-thirty. I was summarily arrested for having sex with a minor. Fortunately, the.