The place looked somehow prosperous, well kept while many other homes in the area appeared deserted and dingy. It also looked empty from the street, w...ndows shuttered, and I wondered if I was in the right place or if the woman had moved. In the back was a carriage house, a tidy stable and a brick privy. The black stable man, who was mucking out stalls, said he did not think anyone was "t'home."I knocked at the back door and when no one responded, entered by using my bayonet as a pry tool and. Have you two decided what kind of studs that you want to get as your first pair?”“I want diamonds,” said Cile.“I want emeralds,” countered Katie.Rockie laughed and asked, “How much do each of you have to spend?”“We each brought fifty dollars, but we are bujjeting ten of that for lunch,” Katie said.“Do you mean ‘budgeting’?” Rockie said, suppressing a giggle.“Yeah, budgeting. So, we have forty dollars each to buy studs for each other. I am going to give Cile hers for Christmas and she is going. “The Kings Cross district is Sydney’s bohemian heartland being both Sydney’s main tourist accommodation and entertainment mecca, as well as its red-light district. The ‘Queen of the Cross’ and Australia’s first widely known transgender person, Carlotta, headlines the world famous all female impersonator revue at Les Girls nightclub,” Michele read aloud from the pamphlet.“Sounds like our sort of place,” Polly grinned.“Fuck it’s good to be in a country where people look like us and speak. Tommy could only stare at Lexi, had she just said she still loved him? had he really heard her say that? maybe it was just wishful thinking on his part “you still love me? after what I did to you and the way I treated you on Mercer’s beach?” he whispered, he needed to hear her say it again. Lexi glanced up at him, surprised to see his face and eye’s filled with disbelief and something else, she was thought looked like hope, “I’ve never stopped loving you Tommy, I would be lying if I said what.