"Why aren't you wearing any eyeliner or eyeshadow?"I search for an answer that would please her."You're still nervous about wearing too much make up, ...ren't you?" It's just that it's daytime and everything," I say quietly, she'sfunny and a close friend but I'm afraid every answer that I give willbe wrong,"Have you got any with you?"I shake my head."Don't worry Trish the Magnificent has her bag of tricks." Please Trish. No thanks, I don't want to look too slutty." Slutty? I thought you were. He immediately replied to not worry that things were cool were just gonna catch the game. I had known he was black from the pictures on his profile, but he was taller than I thought. I relaxed a little as he started to watch the game, and seemed more interested in that than myself. We yapped about sports and he talked about if TO was good for the Cowboys.It was a simple conversation and I was relaxed about the whole thing. In talking, he stated he just gets lonely on the road and wants to talk. I like the way you both work, you make a good team. Adele, judging from the quality of this initial story I’d like to see your other stories. Zack’s told me you’ve written several others and I’d like to give you an advance of twenty thousand dollars to publish them. Would that be acceptable?’ Adele was stunned into silence. She shook her head as if she were in a dream. She looked at Zack, ‘Twenty THOUSAND dollars?’ ‘That’s what Oscar said. What do you think?’ Zack said with a huge grin. Adele. "Well, it's something at least. I just hope it didn't turn out to be bad news when it came to the boat's condition and the skipper. I didn't need the grief it would give me, nor my reputation in the business. It was time to move over to the marina with fingers crossed that this would be acceptable. Price wasn't going to be an issue, I decided. If this guy wanted to hold me up, I was going to have to let him. I needed to look after my customers.When I arrived at the marina office, Burdock was.