I used to see my mom on weekends, as my dad had custody, but she moved to the opposite coast when I was 15, so I spent summers there.The first time I ...ent there, I met a guy next door to her, in his late 20s. I met him because I smelled him smoking pot in the backyard and asked if I could have some. He was a nice guy, and was curious about my mom. Now, guys always like my mom. She was 35 then, but looked younger, was tall with red hair, slender, athletic, big boobs.One afternoon, I told him. “Well, mate,” the man said truculently, “I’m with her now and she don’t need your ‘help’ any more. She told me all about you and I don’t like other men trying to get into my girlfriend’s pants. So I’d be dreadfully grateful if you’d keep away from her. Otherwise you’ll find life gets uncomfortable. Get me?”Victor looked at the man. He seethed inside with anger at the man’s attitude and assessment of his motives in helping Susan, but his face betrayed none of it. The man did not know how. Todd's been nosing around some bars in the last couple of days. Bartender at the Flashy Lady remembered a pair of really rough guys in there about a week ago. They tried to put the moves on one of the girls. When she wouldn't give them the time of day, they tried to force her into the parking lot. One of the pool shooters backed them down and they left." So?" So, he said they smelled like a pig sty. One of them called the other Travis."Gina's ears perked up."And it gets better. The bartender. Like the highway, it hadn't seen much traffic after the new inter-state had been put in and had not been kept up. The entire place was in need of paint and based on the amount of cars parked it the spaces located in front of each room less than a tenth of the place was occupied.The locality suited Art just fine, being several miles outside the next nearest populated area, and being off the beaten track it would give them a place to sleep, something both him and Louie needed badly. He hadn't.