”She pulled some bills out of the wallet in her purse, “Here, take your damn money, asshole.” She hurled her roll into the front seat and bills ...luttered onto the cushion. She stayed in her seat as I said, “Hey honey, I hope you get that promotion.”I counted my take: six singles. Something was amiss. Usually when people couldn’t pay they would just got out and left. They might say, “I’ll be right back” or “I’ve got to go upstairs and get some.” Then I’d never see them again.In one or two cases. After the meal the three sat watching the TV together in front of a log fire, Penny dressed in a loose dressing gown and a thin nightgown, curled in the old armchair. She became aware of the young lads eyes, glancing at her nipple`s peeping through the thin material, both the nipple`s and the boy trying desperately not to be noticed. A smile flitted across her face, as she fained concentrating on the program moving her body to casually shrug the outer gown from her shoulder, she knew it was. "I just ... we just ... it was a stupid thing to do." Good," the officer told him and looked at his notes. "Now I see this is a first offence and ... we know it's easy to get sucked into these things. But we've had half the coppers in this nick out there tonight. It's late, they'd rather be at home with their families. I'd rather be at home with mine, and I'm sure you'd rather be at home with yours." He stared straight at Jack who nodded."Well actually, it might be a bit embarrassing to be home. It came as such things do, at the most obvious and least appropriate moment, and was mostly own stupid fault. I was back on drugs. Not addicted, not shooting smack or anything as bad as that, not more than what is now termed recreational use, and it was only occasional. The trouble was, Steve would go through cycles of depression, not surprisingly, today she would be called bi-polar, and when she was down, what she needed was to get right out of it, and spent a night in the rush of speed or the.