That she was 10 times better than I was." Hope said bursting into tears again. Jeremy held her tighter as she cried on his shoulder for a long time. W...en she stopped she stared into his eyes. They stared deeply into hers with a passion she had never seen before. "Why do you put up with me Jeremy? Why after all these years? I've done nothing to make you want to stay." Hope said still holding him close. He simply smile at her and kissed her passionately. With more love than he has ever given her.. I sat down on my History book and waited for her. I must have been there for about ten minutes before I saw her walking towards me. She was coming from a direction that meant she must have first walked most of the way to her house, and then cut back across to get to the intersection where I waited."I'm glad you waited. Sheila Farley insisted on walking home with me. I couldn't tell her that I was meeting someone. She'd blab it all over the school. She kept asking me about Karen, and about the. “It was worth the sore ass I got out of it.”“And Joanne’s here too,” Cheryl said.“Wait,” said Joe. “I thought this was supposed to be about the Cube.”“She can gush about that,” Cheryl giggled. “But she’ll have a nice drama too. And like I said, the story is Eddie starting again.”“I don’t mind,” Joe decided. “I’ll ask Joanne.”“And I’ll ask Eddie,” said Rachel. “He might not want to air his, uh, deficiencies.”“We could always angle it against Joe,” Cheryl suggested. “Have him the villain.”“To. Tell him I thank him for his kindness but this arrangement and the hostility of his children is not for me and not to bother attempting to change my mind. Goodbye.’ ‘You are going now?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Good riddance.’ ‘What a fucking gentleman you are not Dirk, or should I say Black Dirk?’ Maggie only had to wait two minutes before a cab arrived bringing people in. She rode out in it, probably being the first guest to leave. Three months later the bank president mentioned to Maggie that one of her.