“Thia, I don’t need drugs, I need something interesting to do,” I admitted.“Do you want me to change my name to interesting and start the thin... between us up again?” she asked.“It’s tempting, but you seem to be at peace with where you are at the moment. You are not responsible for my state of mind,” I admitted.“Then during my next break, let’s go to the company store and buy those dogs and cinnamon buns,” she demanded.I smile and said, “Of course honey.” Agreeing with Thia wasn’t the only way. Dust particles flickered in the beams of sunlight coming through the dirty windows."Yes sir," said Robert, hands folded behind him in one of the first positions he had learned as a soldier, feet as wide apart as his shoulders."Democrat," said the man again, raising his voice and showing Robert's paper to the elderly man beside him."Weren't he a blue ... a Fed'ral soldier?" said the white haired man, glancing from Robert to the chairman and back to Robert, making a face as though he had. “Okay, but... , “ she said.“Well, just as I was about to order, I saw the most beautiful woman in the world, your mom. I had to meet her; hell, I had to marry her. But, as I soon discovered, she was already married, married to a good man. But, that good man was in prison which is something that you don’t know. He’d been sentenced to fifteen years for killing a policeman.“He killed the policeman, Selena, because the policeman was threatening your mother, and, blackmailing her,” he said.. " Good. Helen, I want you to bring Emily over here tonight. Tell Bill you are taking her shopping for school clothes or something. I don't want him to know that his daughter is getting dicked just yet. I want to save that for later. I have a plan that will make you very happy, I think."Later that evening, Helen and Emily knocked on the door. Maggie ushered them into the living room where John and his son Steven were sitting having a conversation wearing only their boxer shorts. Steven was 14.