” I took your hand and led you to the bar and introduced you to Vicky. She put a glass and rag down and leaned over the bar towards me. "So this is ...our adventurous man you talked about?” and you looked at me like I was up to something. You fired back “whatever she said … it’s all true.” She laughed … "Something like that." I started blushing because I felt somewhat exposed.The rest of the afternoon she and I exchanged secret glances and smiles, knowing that something was going to happen but I. .. Whoa!“Hey! Nice digs. How’d you manage to score this? Our place is a pigsty!”Three girls in bikini tops and shorts were on the sidewalk looking at our place. And at me. I guess I’m not that bad to look at, but these chicks were in their predatory mode. I’d been slinging animal carcasses around the butcher shop all summer. I was in pretty good shape and was just wearing shorts and sandals. It was mid-morning and already hot. Summer’s last flare-up before snow flies.“Um ... Hi. It wasn’t any. Do you think James qualifies as that?”“He does seem to constantly talk about himself, often in the third person which really turns me off,” she said.“Well, you can always crash at our place, if a date goes bad with him, can’t she, Caroline?” I glanced over and saw she had left to change. I slapped Jenn on the butt and told her to change as well.I went up and paid for everything and we all went back to the house.Caroline gave CJ a bottle of her own breast milk, and put her down for a nap.They. She apologised for being foul with her earlier and said that things had just got on top of her lately. She hadn't had a decent commission in weeks and money was getting tight."I guess I'm lonely too," she told Chrissie, "you know it won't be long before you'll move away and then what?" You look great mum, when you go to the trouble," Chrissie told her, "there's lots of nice men out there..." Oh no there's not!" she snapped, "and what would you know?"Chrissie slumped in silence. Her mother put.