Had running water. I washed my hands, went to the truck with the last of my belongings and took off the boots as I sat sideways in the driver seat. I ...ossed the boots, one at a time, backward into the bed of the truck.“That’s it, ba ... Buddy,” I said. I let the tears run for a bit. “Everything I had. That’s what’s left.”He reached over, consoling me with a touch.“I’m sorry, Mimi.”I sniffled, “Let me call the landlord.” I picked up my phone, ran through the contact list, punched his number. Got. "Tim heard himself gulp. Great. This is gonna be fun.***THE NEXT DAY:The Joker tossed one of the local papers on the arm of the chair andlaughed. He'd gotten it right, alright. That girl he'd had his fun withreally had been Arachnya. He reached into pocket and retrieved hisphone. "Yeah, boss?" his man answered."That reporter for Channel Seven, bring him to the funhouse." Uh, which one, boss?"He shrugged, though the man couldn't hear that over the phone. "Don'treally care, I just want a. "Too bad there isn't some type of diversion to draw their attention away from this side of the planetoid," Diana said."Perhaps there already is," Selina answered. "With all those tractor beams locked to the planetoid and those seemingly endless lines of supplies snaking their way out of those gigantic airlocks to the ships, surely most of their attention is engaged in sorting all that out." Hmmm," Diana said with a grin, "maybe you're right. There also seemed to be a large number of shuttles. Just then, it happened, the way I was sitting my pantleg rose up just enough to, "Nick, are you wearing tights?" It totallysnapped me back into reality, and as I looked down I knew there was noother excuse for what they could be, I just sat there and we looked intoeach other's eyes for what seemed like eternity. Finally I said, "Well,kinda."She laughed. "You're kinda wearing tights, how does that happen, isthat like almost being pregnant." She rubbed up on my leg and andgiggled again. .