", I replied,"What did you have in mind?" Janice picked up her emery board andnail polish and slid over next to me on the couch. She startedtook my ha...d and started filing my nails. "What in the world areyou doing?" "I'm doing your nails." I had not trimmed themrecently so Janice was able to file them so that they were allslightly pointed and all the same length. When she was done filingmy fingernails she picked up her bottle of nail polish and shookit. "Oh no, not nail polish." "Yes nail. “I’ll let you know when I’m going to be in Chicago.”“OK. Remember, next summer I probably won’t be here because of my trip to Japan.”“Steve, you were a wonderful lover and Elyse was right. You did fuck me silly!”June 27, 1992, Chicago, Illinois“Welcome home!” Bethany said. “Where’s my little tyke?”“He went into the coach house with Jesse,” I said.She went out the back door and I continued on into the house.“Hi Abbie, how was your week off?”“Quiet! There were no calls for you during the week.. Simply being in this new 'family' quickly became as much an obsession for Audrey, as it was for Melanie, making the two of them exceptional teammates in bed or at any time they needed to work together. The Family was all the mattered and I was the Family.If there were any problems within our family they would've orbited around Bonnie, as she was having the most trouble acclimating herself to this new lifestyle. I'll admit, I was wrong when I thought Bonnie might be a gold-digger. While it's. ”I sighed. Jim was right. He’d been more than an employer and source of product to sell. He’d even given me a place to stay when I first got to town. I supposed I owed him an explanation.“How do you do it, Jim?” I asked. “How do you balance managing a couple thousand units, construction crews, rental office, and maintenance? How do you do that and have a life?”“That’s where I can be more of a bad example than a good example,” he said. He opened the door to his office and I went in with him. Jim.