”“It’s not that I’m embarrassed, Thomas,” I told him. “It’s just that I’ve never been propositioned by another man before. At least ... think I was just proplsitioned.”They looked at each other and simply nodded, directly towards me.Before I knew it I was on my feet, being led to the back of the house by both of them. Once we got to the bedroom, which they obviously shared, clothes began to fly and in no time we were all naked and sitting on the bed. Well, I was sitting on the bed and Thomas. . and His wrath. She scratched around in the garden shed, searching for the rope she knew was there, her mind blocking out the fact the shed was full of spiders and god knows what else. The thin beam of her torch swept across the blackened room, till her eyes spotted what she had been searching for. Coiled like a waiting serpent her fingers trembled as she picked up the length of rope. letting its coarseness run between her fingers. She chewed on her bottom lip, she was nervous, incredibly so,. ‘Have you folks made up your minds?’ Attempting a smile, Faith said, ‘No-thing, grazie.’ Bill frowned at her, and said, ‘I would like the cheeseburger platter and a large Coke. Do you have any green Jell-O?’ Faith stuck out her tongue. ‘No, Hon, but we have some homemade lemon meringue pie. I won a blue ribbon at the county fair last summer.’ ‘Mm, you’ve convinced me. I’d like a piece of that too, please.’ Glancing at Faith, Red asked, ‘Are you sure you don’t want anything, Honey?’ ‘No, grazie.. She had done what she had planned to do with it; she was a vet now. I would have quite possibly made myself into a journalist, maybe working for the Times or the Daily News. We could have maybe lived in this very building. This was going to be like looking at my potential future had I taken the other fork in the road.That is terrifying. What would I think of her now? What would she think of me now? Would I long for the alternate choice? Would I long for what could have been? Become depressed as.