“I don’t like the idea any better than you do, Betty! Do you have any other ideas?” he shouted.Betty felt defeated, “No, I guess not. But I’... afraid.”“What if I stayed in the room and watched you have sex with guys? That way, you’d be safe,” Tom suggested.Betty glared at Tom, “Oh, I’d bet you’d like that, pervert!”“Hey, I’m just trying to keep a roof over our heads, work with me here. Unless we come up with the money, we’re out on the street,” he argued.Betty was silent for a few moments. Then. "you're lover_girl?" "you're thegentleromantic?" "this is awkward." I said. "tell me about it." she replied. We didn't put the pieces together right away to figure out who the other was. "aunt Jessica you do realize that everyone one is going to want details about your date." "I know Kyle,and stop calling me aunt Jessica. It's Jessie tonight." "Okay Jessie. I think that we should keep everyone else in the dark about our date." "I agree with you on that Kyle." We enjoyed the rest of our date. She was shocked and was angry and started to blame me a lot. I just told her to lower her voice but she kept on talking. Suddenly, I placed my hand on her mouth and said her to think of her kid. I was continuously taking advantage of her kid and her situation.She got mum and kept crying. I placed her kid on the sofa and left him to play with some toys at my shelf & said her to make it quick just for 5 mins. She didn’t say anything and was standing quietly. I took her hand and placed it on my. The years ahead were hungry ones for us, withfear our household's demanding new lodger. We had barely managed tohold onto our land and the machinery of our family's trade, Mam turningdown every offer to to buy this equipment---even though selling itwould've helped a lot in the short term---as if she'd feared that tolet it go would be to admit that she'd lost all hope of her husband andeldest son ever returning- an admission that would seal their fatesomehow. Which might seem like a.