"Your wealth endows the museum," he said, patronisingly. "And I must say the presence of your wives here tonight graces the museum too — bringing wi...h them as splendid an exhibition of jewellery as the museum has ever exhibited." His audience laughed politely. "I trust that we have now overcome your concerns about the security here in the museum. I can assure you that they were the result of the irresponsible actions of one of our staff who is no longer in her post. This is the start of a new. ‘I can’t believe you, you would…’ Gary began at last, then faltered. ‘Why?’ Julie could almost hear the lump in his throat as he asked her the question she knew she could never answer. To Gary, at least. At least not the real answer. ‘Gary! Oh, Jesus! I didn’t plan it or anything!’ she cried. ‘It just happened!’ It sounded so cliché. It sounded pathetic. How could she explain what had wiped away five years of marriage with, ‘it just happened’? ‘Yeah, whatever,’ Gary replied, sounding hollow,. He opened the driver?s side and stepped out. ?Have you changed your mind?? The girl was silent for a moment. ?If I leave this time, then I?ll just keep going.?Finally the girl asked, ?Why?? The man didn?t answer. He began to approach the sidewalk when a woman exited her room and looked around. She saw the child and on the sidewalk in front of an open hotel room and a man, presumably the child?s father walking toward her. The man glanced over at the woman and smiled a sad smile. He then bent and. I would be the target for whoever would walk by, and Illiana, Sally and Patrick would come with me to make sure nothing bad could happen to me and Illiana would film everything on her camcorder, so I could have a chance to see how I looked standing there. It would be the first time that I could see how I looked when I was on a dare. However, I also would make sure that at the end of the dare, I would get the tape, so I could destroy it. Well, that was the plan I had at that moment, but.