“I’ll have some places for you to look at,” he told her.Unable to say any more, she nodded back. Reaching for the passenger side door, she opene... it and sat down. In moments, Heidi had the car backed out onto the street and they all waved one last time.Minutes passed and the miles flew by. Before long they were on the Interstate, headed back to her parents’ home in Little Rock. Sniffles and sobs emanated from the back seat for a while, but were eventually replaced by girl chatter and then,. "It's not all smut," Louise said defensively. "Really well written. Evocative of its era."I was stunned. Had this girl had an education she'd been hiding? As if reading my mind, she said,"Yes, I've been to uni. English and German. Dropped out after a year because everyone else was having more fun than me." Well you kept that quiet," I said."They think you're a ponce if you've got a brain," she said sadly. " And I've got enough to contend with, being Big Louise." You're..." I began, but couldn't. I'll comeback to that later in my story, but suffice it to say that I was notfighting the strangeness of the modeling, nor was I fighting the strangenew feelings. Dr. H and I agreed that I would try to take things as theycame and not draw too many conclusions too soon.A little bit earlier I mentioned the other thing that had begun to happenas a result of the stepped-up ad campaign with Tony's photographs of the'mystery woman' (me). The problem was all the publicity that the adsgenerated, and. Watching Jake, she was filled with the well-known but nameless feeling she had when around him, the absence of which over the past four weeks had given her a depressing sense of incompleteness.“Jacob, are you working today?” Beth asked when they had both finished their meals.“I was going to go in for a few hours this afternoon if I’m not dead.” His face remained deadpan as he offhandedly accepted the possibility of his imminent mortality. “Why?”“I’m off and I was gonna ring in the apocalypse by.