‘What the fuck?’ he said. ‘I asked you very nicely to show me your ID and give me the phone number of your boss. You copped an attitude that con...erns me a lot. This is a high security apartment building, you knew that when you buzzed my gate, now you are going to stand right there until a patrol car shows up.’ I punched 911 on my cell phone. ‘I’m just a cable guy, you are crazy,’ he demanded tensing for fight or flight. ‘All the more reason for you to shut the fuck up and wait. If you do. Julie guessed, correctly, that she’d been her before. Miss Drake whipped the cane through the air in practice strokes. Julie felt sick. It was horribly flexible and hissed like a nest of maddened wasps. Andrea’s bottom flexed as each stroke flailed the air. And then, with no further warning, the next time, Miss Drake landed the cane squarely across Andrea’s quivering bottom.Andrea yelped and Julie saw her whole body shudder at the violent blow. Three more strokes followed and Julie was. It’s very disconcerting. It’s kind of you, but this is my problem and I’m going to have to deal with it myself.’ ‘Do you think I’m just being kind? Do you think I’m doing this to earn some sort of fucking boy scout badge?’ he demanded. Emily could only stare at him in bewilderment not sure where the anger was coming from. ‘I care about you Emily. Surely you know that.’ Emily’s eyes misted up a bit. After all this time, Mike was saying the words that she had wanted him to say so long ago, but. "Mum? Could we talk? I'd like to go down to the city tonight, just until the last train. Alex is coming down, and he wants to go dancing at the Lollyboy. It's been months since we went dancing." Jeb grinned, recognizing the little lies her daughter often used to try to get her own way, and didn't like to frustrate her too often, though she was a bit transparent to a mother who had been sneaking out of the house before she was twelve. Besides it would be nice to be alone with Jonathon."Alright,.