" She hopped up onto her bed. "So what did he have to say for himself?" Uh, I have a bit of a confession to make." Allison looked down as she spoke, s...aring at a scuff mark on one of her shoes. "I asked him to come over."A look of annoyance flashed across Kaija's face. "Why in the hell would you do that?"Ally cleared her throat nervously. "I was trying to get him to come and see you," she explained in a near whisper. "You looked so miserable... So when he logged on to the IM server, I pretended. He was one of those men who would say something outrageous, in his mind jocular and unoffensive, but to the listener especially an expectant female, he would sound sadistic and frustrated.He had drank a lot of brandy so you could excuse his rudeness or eccentricity, but what was evident was that he was desirous to enact these perverse desires on you, and in our household, the only real thing stopping him, was me, as my husband was a keen voyeur and offering me for his sexual enjoyment, always. His grin froze, though, when she rolled the window down and he leaned forward into the car."Damn, lady, your car sure does stink. What happened, some- thing crawl in here and die?"Damn it, Donna thought. She'd gotten used to the smell of the piss while she'd been driving over here, but to someone breathing fresh air it had to be like sticking their head into a toilet.And now he was looking right down at her, and saw everything. "Why, lady, you're bare-assed naked!"Donna reached for the gear. ’ With that, she pushed me into a seat, and, with an amazing million kilowatt smile, took the stage for her audition. I am a fan of Bette Midler, but the rendition of ‘The Rose’ I heard that night would have put Ms. Midler to shame. An alto that soared in the heights and growled on the low notes, emotion that no amount of acting could fake, this was what music was supposed to be like. I was not the only one in the theater with tears in his eyes as she finished her performance to heart-felt.