He looked around. No one was within earshot. "Thank you so much, Frances."Her smile indicated that she'd quite like to hug him but she restrained hers...lf. Mark got the message though and was touched.They all moved on.Spot on two o'clock Victoria banged on his outside door."Come on," she said. "Can't be late for these people." Quite right, Bossy Bags," said Mark emerging with a haversack in his hand.Victoria snorted and then got the giggles. "My special ADC. No doubt you were ready five minutes. As she exited, she bumped into Janet. Esther began to cry when she saw her friend. Coyly and without looking directly at her, Esther said, “Janet, thanks for a nice party, we will need to leave now”. Janet asked, “Why are you crying”? Esther said, “Nothing you did, I just did a horrible thing and need to take James home”. Janet asked, “What was this horrible thing you did”? Esther answered, “Just horrible, I can’t talk about it, please don’t ask anymore”. Esther then went and helped her. He curled his bare toes in the carpet and fought the urge to lower his pajama bottoms. On the other side of the door he could hear his mom.“Oh, Paul. Oh, Paul. Just like that.”His father was grunting. He was probably close, the lucky bastard.“What are you doing?” The soft voice behind him carried all the weight of a thunderclap.Sam spun to see Bex standing, hesitantly, in the hall. It was hard to make her out in the darkness. She had on some sort of long-sleeved top and pajama bottoms. Her. " Ann, I'm not supposed to tell any of our models this, but we've got a lot of big contracts coming in next month from some top companies. Don't blow your chance to make it big. All the supermodels have done nudes." Latrell, I don't know what to do," she said crying. "Let me think about it."Latrell nodded and said to take her time. Ann went into the dressing room and sat on the bench. She started weighing the pro's and con's. $1200, no one would recognize her, the chance for some better work.