’ I said, ‘How could you not know when I was so specific about Mark. Were you overcome with lust? There is no fucking excuse. We always did these ...hings together. Have you cheated with others?’ Carol came over to me, tears falling down her face, to put her arms around me. I rebuffed her. I pushed her away. At that moment I wanted nothing to do with her. My world was crumbling. I told Carol that I was going to a hotel tonight. She could call me on my cell if there were any emergency. I went into. "Good thing, there probably would have been blood on the walls. But taking this big of a step, after how Jessie and I ended-well, it's terrifying." I understand," Liz said. "I do. But I think we can make it work. Look, I didn't end with Rich all that great, either. And it's the same thing-either he was intolerant of my lifestyle, or I was too pigheaded about my lifestyle. Maybe it was me, you know? But, I don't know, it's just different with us. Even though we haven't spent enough time. THE HIPPOWHATEVERSo, while Arthur F – which I was pretty sure stood for fucking asshole – rubbed his hand and simpered about how I was positively delightful and an utter smashing hit and oh how excited he was – I took a glance around and got a sense for the place I was actually in. It wasn’t any white room. The walls were made of a rough gray-black stone, shaded with darker hues of reds and browns in splotchy discolorations, like mold growing on a food. The ceiling was high and vaulted, and. At seventeen, Roberta knew that Jason either was awkward around girls or he never chose to bring any of them home. She wondered if he was still a virgin.So it was with morbid anticipation that she picked up Jason's newest book, a "how to" on hypnotism, and began perusing it. She found out that she couldn't put the damn thing down until she had read it from cover to cover!It didn't take a college degree to figure out that Jason could use this skill to seduce girls, and what boy can be trusted in.