Hey, I don't suppose you could give me a ride home, could you?" Sure. I'll meet you out front, okay?" I took the two little bags of groceries and head...d for my car. After I put them in, I walked the 30 feet back to the entrance and waited until she came out, then showed her to my car.She slumped into the passenger's side seat as I drove. She said it was only a couple of miles but her car was in the shop and her feet just hurt too much to walk it again."I'm pretty good at giving foot massages,". ”“You’re looking solo, Mr. Bronson. I haven’t been on the floor very much tonight, but I didn’t see your lady come in, and if she is here, she still hasn’t commandeered a table or a bar seat. Anything happening in the alley that I should know about, or better yet join?”He smiled, though it was fraught and she quite obviously noticed. “I can’t speak with any sort of authority about the alley, but she’s not here ... and, unfortunately, she’s not my lady.”“But I thought...” She gestured at her. He put his cock back in his underwear, zipped up his pants, got off his bed and walked to his daughter’s room. He knocked three times on the door and said, “It’s dad, can I come in?”“It’s a free country,” she said from the other side of the door.He took that as a yes. He then opened the door and walked into her room. She was laying on the bed flipping channels on the 42-inch TV they bought her Christmas. He stood next to hear and said, “Can you please turn the TV off?”“Are you going to buy me. I know there must be some significance behind it.” He turns on his side to face me. I’ve been lying on my back with my knees up, feet on the ground. He reaches over and begins to stroke his hand slowly up and down my calf, over the tattoo, as if in doing so it may answer his questions. “Well, it does…. on many levels.” I pause, thinking of the best way to explain. “On the most basic level, I’m a total nature freak, especially around waterfalls. It’s where I find my spirituality, my peace.” I.