I went over to my mates house with a few mates and had a few beers which turned into a lot of beers.It got to about 2 in the morning and i started bei...g sick , i felt terrible ,i just wanted to get home and get in my own bed , so i phoned a taxi and got dropped of at the bottom of my street.I thought My Mum and danny would be asleep , and i didnt want to wake them up ,But just as i got outside my house , i saw danny stood in the kitchen through the blinds , so i ran round the side of the house. I knew that to rent a place for a gym on the Island would be expensive. I had heard the going rate was fifteen a square foot. Rent on a building that size would be $170,000 a month. Even just ten percent of that would be tough for start up. Maybe that was the standard that everyone had in their mind and that stopped anyone from looking. Not only that, there was terrible over-build in retail space on the Island. More than half were empty and in some places it was close to two thirds. With so. When sheasked I was with someone, I blushed and mumbled something about beingtoo busy for this and that. That was half the truth. The other half wasthat I had had the worst luck with women. Not only was I too geeky, butI also had zero confidence approaching and talking to them.Jill must have sensed my being uncomfortable because she changed thetopic immediately by asking if I wanted to grab a bite at thisVietnamese place that was next to the clothing store."That would be great," I answered. Bill was five years younger than me so most of his friends were younger than me. One night we were at a party and I met several girls there and got to know one,Ellie, pretty good. We did everything but fuck that night but since she didn't want to appear easy she made me promise to come back the next friday night and take her out. So I called her that week and set up a date. Now this little town 40 miles north of Abilene didn't have much to do so our plans were to hang out, drink beer and cruise.