I can'tbelieve how real this all is." Joey, I can't even begin to understand what you're going through, but Ipromise you, we will fix it."She looked u... at me in the mirror."I hope so."***We were making our way back out to the floor to work when Joey took aturn to head away from the concession area and down to the cinemascreens."Where are you going?" I'm not on the tills anymore." Since when?" Since Mr Williams preferred to have the younger, more attractivemembers of staff out front to sell to. I was thinking about my options while I was cleaning the damn apartment. I didn’t want to leave a mess behind. And then the doorbell goes off, and I was thinking, ‘Shit, just leave me alone’, but it was Marsha, and she showed me a way out of the mess my life had become.”At this point, Danny was out of his chair and plopping down close to his mother, hugging her almost violently.“Shit, Mom, I never knew. You could’ve said something. You know how much you mean to me!”“I know it now. I know that. Ava's only clothing was a short night gown, barely covering her, ending high on her pale thighs.Although she had a strong and proud persona inside the Lord's house, she was completely unused to the heat and appeared very weakened. With no clothing or shade, her pale skin was slightly reddened on her calves and neck, and now she shivered in the cool night's wind. Adding to her already weakened state, she also had not eaten or drank the whole day.He bent and removed food, water and wine. Careful. ’ She forgave him and looked at his CD case. It wasn’t her music but she had seen worse. Her mind and heart wandered together as she thumbed through the pages. Before, she had been in turmoil, her heart had been unsure until only now. Now that she was here she knew as well as he did that the past was gone. The future would be made between them, something vibrant and new, not the shadowy pains she had known for so long. She decided not to put anything in, her mind was wondering what he would do.