Kyle must have been trained properly because he immediately got up and filled a coffee mug for his wife. Karleen asked Kaycee to bring the cereal she ...anted for her breakfast. After much deliberation, she selected Barrel of Monkeys cereal.By this time Fran had finished the eggs. She put the pan on the table for Kyle and Karleen to share as they wished. I had finished cooking six slices of bacon. They went on a plate next to the eggs.As they ate, Doug announced, “I just got some bad news. Our. Even looking down I felt their eyes on me. I did notice an open doorway in the back, with a litle 'Video booths' sign over it. As i started walking up the aisle towards the back, a guy in grey sweat shorts stepped around the corner looking at me and the movies. He had one hand in his pocket and there was definitly some movement there. As I got closer, he stepped back and turned towards me a little to show off the bulge in his shorts and said "hey, hows it goin?" I tried not to look at. ‘Are you OK?’ I asked. ‘No I’m not,’ she said. ‘I think I’ve done something to my bloody ankle.’ It wasn’t a time to laugh, but I did. Nervously. ‘What happened?’ ‘I’d been to visit my friend Clarice. She doesn’t like dogs, so I had left Dora in the car.’ She nodded, first in the direction of the plump Labrador and then in the direction of a little red MG Midget that was parked under a street light. ‘I ended up staying a Clarice’s a little longer than I expected to, and when I finally got back. "Zoe suddenly remembered what sounded familiar about this. "Holy shit!Ricky, do you remember exactly what she said, what was it?" She said she got the other girl's boyfriend or husband hooked onsomething really addictive, meth, or coke, or something. That somethingwas fucking heroin!" Richard remembered the conversation nearly word forword, as it had dealt with one of his favorite - or perhaps leastfavorite - subjects. "Mom, seriously, we're not messing with you!" Therewas no way in hell this.