Save your own! she says with a snarl as her kick glances off of my hip, not a major hit, but I felt it as my chop takes her in the thigh, not enough t... take her out, but it scores and she winces as she pulls back. Neither of us is any closer to the gun, but shes closer to the bed, which is where I want to be. I lash out with a nice shot but its only a feint, as my knee is what Im using and I score another shot on her leg and she jumps back, favoring it a bit, but she throws a mean shot at my. No one I had heard of had ever signed one without trying to avoid some other legal consequence but in my mind I was avoiding something which was worse: a life without Kelly.“Yes. I just want to be with you even if I’m not actually ‘with you’.”Kelly sat there thinking for a minute not saying a word as I grabbed napkins to wipe away my tears.“Get a lawyer, if you don’t already have one, and have them call mine. We’ll have a contract set up. I hesitate to say this because I must tell you I would. Amy is fine and so is Amber.”“Wait a second…did you say your name was Tim?”“Yes, Ma’am; has Amy mentioned me?”She laughed so hard I had to hold the phone away from my ear. “Yes, Tim—you’re just about the only thing she has mentioned for the last two months, at least.”“That’s great, because it will make what I’m going to tell you easier.” Then I told her what had happened on Monday with Amy’s house. “I damn near choked when my two daughters ran downstairs with Amber to suggest that Amy and. He came home one night in a foul mood, alternating between livid andweeping, because he overheard some girl making fun of his weight. I told him a big story about my day being lousy - things had sucked, butnot as badly as I let on, and I didn't have the hormones to deal with -and offered to share some of the drugs with him. He laughed. "Ha! Sure,what the hell. You've gotta try 'em sooner or later, right? Might as wellbe when you need 'em."I drilled it into my head beforehand and constantly.