"Into town to pick up the days groceries for the restaurant."Marcy stopped dead. "WHAT?!" The restaurant. It's a place where people pay other people t... cook-" I know what a damned restaurant is," Marcy growled."Language, young lady!" her mother called from the sedan."You don't expect me to go into town like this, surely?" Yes, and stop calling me Shirley," I deadpanned. I love the classic old straight lines. "Get in the truck." If you look closely," she informed me, pointing to her torso, "I'm. He just got lucky. I'll show him. Nobody messes with Rocky Mountain." Oh, the professional wrestler. Sorry it's not nice to meet you. You Sir, are under arrest for assault and stupidity. You should get a year for assault, and I'm not sure how long for stupidity."The cop looked at Bobby, "Where's the gun you had Ma'am? How did you hurt your wrist?"Sarah came out the door at that moment with her purse, surprised to see the policeman. She said, "I was afraid of that. Someone saw this and called. They didn’t say anything else all throughout her meal. They just looked at one another. ‘John, about earlier today,’ Samantha began as she cleaned up her meal. ‘I didn’t expect that to happen. Things are spinning out of my control and I can’t say that I like it.’ ‘I know,’ John replied. ‘Me too. Don’t look at me like that. I didn’t use my abilities on you to influence your thinking.’ ‘I didn’t say that.’ ‘No, but you were thinking them, understandably so, too. I’m usually more in charge of my. * * * * Over the following months I had seen a lot of her as James was round all the time, and before long had moved in. Seeing more of her didn’t help my obsession but at least I was better able to control myself and act fairly normal when she was about. Usually one night at the weekend we would all get a takeaway, watch a film or two or something on the tv and sit in the front room drinking and chatting. The really hard part would come when Nick and James snuck off to get frisky and I was.