"Costa and the doctor were obviously more than a little confused, but Costa shrugged."Fine," he said. "We can do that. Have your people add it to the ...aperwork. We can have someone pick everything up as soon as it's finished."They all stood up and headed toward the door before Ken realized that they hadn't paid."Um ... we didn't get a bill," he said."It goes on our tab," smiled Costa.They walked out and separated in the parking lot."That," said Costa to the doctor as they got to their car, "is. He would have been embarrassed if she had. They walked out to the lot and he led her over to the vehicle.“Well, there it is, still like it?”“Yes, I do,” she walked around the car, pausing to look at the sticker in the window. “That’s the price?”“No, that’s the starting point. If you want to pay that, fine; if not, we haggle. Now, about the GS, were you looking for a trade in, do you have a buyer, or are you going to keep it?”“Well I wanted to trade it in.”“Swell, now we haggle over the trade in. The Club Tropicana consisted of a single, long room with a bar on one side and a row of booths on the other side. Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side was playing on the sound system and the room was filled with smoke and the earthy scent of alcohol and warm bodies. Billy saw men and women standing at the bar and sitting together in the booths. Billy heard someone laughing out loud and turned his head to see. His eyes had now adjusted to the gloom and he saw that it was a large blonde girl who had. You have never been in this much control of your life and for the first time you desperately wished you were still controlled by your circumstances, that is where you have comfortably hidden for so long and have been so accustomed to being. Inadvertently, I was forcing you to unlock the doors to your world, just like you have done for me. ‘What is happening between us?’ your whispered thought. I lean into you and kiss you tenderly, just like it was the first time. If fate itself had been.