I doubted that Cindy's mom cooked for her most mornings. I wondered if there was even food in her house from the way she had wolfed down the pizza the...night before. I also remembered how thin she appeared in the tub, even if she was perfectly rounded in all the right places. All of that made me believe that she needed to eat much better than she had been. I finished preparing breakfast, put the orange juice in the refrigerator, finished the bacon and had just finished the last pancake when. She lowered her voice, ‘You seem like a nice guy, Felix dear, so take my advice. I don’t think you wanta be messing around with Vinnie’s girl.’ She was making it easy for me. ‘Who’s Vinnie?’ ‘Vinnie Patucci, he’s a real tough boy. And let me warn you, he’s very jealous. Jealous and tough, a bad combination. He beat some guy up bad in here one night cause he thought he was flirting with his Dana.’ ‘I’ll try not to be too scared.’ She couldn’t decide whether I was kidding her or not. So she. I was eventually deemed competent to appear at Magistrates Court. All charges in the UK are first made in the magistrate's court. The accused had to be there but apart from confirming his/her identity would say little. When we knew that the case would be sent to the Crown Court, his solicitor would occasionally ask for a barrister to appear to plead for bail. Sometimes the solicitor was disappointed when I turned up to take on this task. I would like to say that I succeeded every time.. The trip to my place took a little over an hour, but they were happy campers. They’d also changed into chic-looking casual tops and shorts, leaving the sexy cocktail dresses behind.I asked, “How come you live in separate apartments?”Elsa responded, “I got mine first, and it’s so small we couldn’t imagine two people living there. I’m also a short walk from my work at the architect’s office. Cindy got her apartment near work too. And there was one other thing?”“What?” I asked, but I already had.