"What happened back there?" Ed asked, "This morning I was just a nobody, now I'm the Police Commissioner."Katherine slid over to him, "You definitely ...ere not a nobody to me."Ed parked in front of his apartment and he and Katherine climbed the stairs. The door flew open and Betty threw her arms around Ed and yelled something about hearing about his appointment on the TV. Ed pulled her from around his neck and he went into the apartment followed by a scowling Katherine.Ann was sitting on the. Fortunately, her current lover was an understanding individual and together they had managed to maintain a loving, if not vigorously passionate, relationship, which she found very much to her liking. She was thinking about Sam, and must have been distracted because she slammed headlong into something tall and pissed off. ‘Bloody Hell!!’ roared a stranger’s voice. Miranda cried out and fell to the ground, all of her possessions crashing next to her. She gasped in pain as jolts of agony shot. We got him right as she was handing him his piece of apple pie. Twang went the bow. The only difference for him was, instead of falling in love with his pie, like he did every other day; he looked up instead of down, and fell in love with the waitress. Easy as pie, to coin a phrase.The computer geek and the sales girl in the flower shop was harder. The geek was so shy, that he wouldn't even go into the shop; he'd stand there looking in at her through the window. She would never come out of the. Don’t I look good, daddy? Good enough to— He opened his mouth to tell her, NO. To tell her to go right back upstairs and change. But something stopped him. He took his keys and phone off the counter, smiled and said, “Okay.” He told himself it was respect. He told himself it was an unwillingness to spoil the day with a needless argument when things had started to level out between them. But after they climbed in the car, he in the driver’s seat, her in the passenger, and she pulled her.