They hire the theater tech crew to do that. We go party." Party?" Remember what I told you about the difference between a theater party and an opera p...rty? You are about to find out what party food is all about. And you are driving tonight. This is fair warning. I plan to have a couple glasses of wine," she laughed. "I'll be out in ten minutes."I hung around outside the dressing room as actor after actor came out and headed for the party. I could hear the tech crew pounding in the theater. “You had sex with him didn’t you?”“So what if I did?”“You’re just a fucking slut.”“Hey, buster.” I rounded on him, “You’re the one who’s always been on to me to have sex with another man, remember?”“Yes, but the deal was that I watched.”“Well as it happens, I thought you were awake when we started, it was only when we went upstairs that I saw you’d fallen asleep in a drunken stupor.”“I was tired.”“You were drunk.”“That still doesn’t make it right does it?”“Ron, you don’t understand, I don’t. ”“And to think we were just friends five years ago.”She practically leaned her head to him as they continued walking. “It was the best choice ever when I found you. You have been such a good mate. I promise to be with you for as long as you live.”He tightened his grip on her hand. “Even if I am an old and wrinkly man?”“Are you kidding? You will be just as exciting wither you are twenty or eighty. I bet you will still be providing for me no matter what.”“I am sorry that I won’t be with you. " But- but you don't want to move back with them?" Janet asked."I didn't say THAT," Ellie replied defensively, wary of her guardian'sattempts to psychoanalyse her."No," Janet conceded, "but the fact that you're back home hours early infloods of tears kinda hints that you might be thinking it." ...Maybe," Ellie mumbled."Ellie," Janet said softly. "I- I always thought you wanted to move backin with your parents, to be accepted by them again?" I do," Ellie replied, before shaking her head. "I.