"Damn, there's blood all over the seat," Dad said. Oops. Neither of us had thought to put something down. "I'll have to get that out before it sets."A... soon as I walked in the back door, Mom said, "How badly are you hurt?" Dad started collected cleaning supplies."I'm scraped up in a lot of places, and I'm probably bruised all over, but everything seems to work."She looked at Dad. "Why in hell didn't you call? I was worried sick." Where was I supposed to find a phone?"She noted what he was. The hospital though, had been under the jurisdiction of the Seaside police. They had been another 30 minutes in responding after the Carmel police, and they had treated Ken as a homicidal maniac. Without Walter staying with him and filtering the rage he was developing, Ken would have lost it and probably spent a lot of time in jail trying to get things sorted out. Watching Marcia and Walter tiptoeing around each other and feeling out the beginning of a relationship helped though, and it kept. ’ ‘Ask her,’ I said. He turned to Millie, who said, ‘What’s wrong with my name?’ ‘It’s not that, sweetheart,’ I said. ‘You just don’t want creeps to find out where you live or call you or stuff.’ ‘Oh.’ She blinked. ‘I never thought of that.’ She thought for a second. ‘How about using my real first name, and making up a fake last name?’ ‘That’s what a lot of the girls do,’ said DeMarco. He looked at her appraisingly. ‘Say, I have an idea,’ he said. ‘I was just thinking, something Irish, it. ‘Indeed! I saw you looking at her breasts, you pervert!’ ‘How could you have noticed, when you were looking at the very same place!?’ We both laughed at that comment, as Julia had effectively been looking at Chatayal’s breasts just as much as I had. ‘Has she made you forget about what you wanted just before getting out of the water?’ ‘Even if she had been naked and dripping, she wouldn’t have managed to drive your sweet pink pussy out of my head…’ ‘Hmmm, thanks Loa. You’re a real gentlemen…’.