As I passed the reception desk I glanced over my shoulder. Rich wasn't there. His shift had ended. Instead, behind the desk sat Michelle, who had repl...ced him.I took the elevator up to my floor. When I opened my door I looked down to see a manilla file folder that someone had slid through the crack. I picked it up and discovered it contained my copies of International Male and Undergear, which had a Post-It note on the cover: "These are yours, so I guess you have mine? Bring them by my room.. .. Yipeeeeee it's Friday time to grab the case and head for the airport for the last time this year. Finally, the Christmas holidays had arrived and Bob would soon be back in England relaxing with his family. It had been another hard year for him, travelling back and forth to Belgium every week to work in that strange country, constantly living out of a suitcase he was tiring of this gypsy lifestyle but next year he would sort it all out and things would be better. Christmas Day quickly arrived. The bouncers smiled at each other. “Better be thorough with this one. Who knows what she could be carrying.” One of them ran his hands down her back and over her hips, then slowly down the skin of her left leg. When he reached her ankle, he switched to the right leg, starting to move back up, both hands, even slower as she locked eyes with his colleague. The hands continued up her thigh, and then under the fabric of her dress as I saw her bite her lip and her eyelids fluttered. She slowly. .." I knew you wouldn't let us down," mom said, before I finished mysentence, "Gina would be so...." Mom!" She stopped talking and looked at me. "I'll do it, just to see ifit's possible, but if it's not, then I'm out, and I don't want to hear anymore about it....okay? Deal?"She didn't like it of course, but she agreed. During my decision makingtime, I had forgotten just how sneaky mom was, which would come back tohaunt me later on, but I was committed, and mom told me that we wouldbegin the.