Got deeper and deeper into this extremist mindset that couldn’t help but despise me.”“Yikes,” Kelly said. “Yeah, you’d mentioned some of t...at before. I can kinda see why you broke up with her.”“She left me, not the other way around,” Brian replied. “It was frustrating, it hurts, and I hate it, but... it’s not like she just changed all of the sudden, it was this gradual thing, over two years. Before I knew it, I wasn’t even fit to speak with her on any number of subjects, because my opinions, as. It stung just a bit, and afterseveral moments, was wiped off. While that was going on, eye liner wasbeing applied to his eyes, his eyebrows had been plucked and shaped andeyebrow pencil applied. The young women working on him continued theirchatter about how attractive Ash was going to look, and discussed thevarious shades of cosmetics they were applying and which shades wouldlook better.Ash tried again to say something with a significant amount ofdesperation creeping in, "Are you all crazy?. ”“Raylene, do you really think she’s got a baby coming?”“Well I never saw her washing out any rubbers, so I’m guessing that Paul wasn’t using them or any skins for that matter. Yeah, I’m thinking she’s in the family way.”“It must be nice,” Betty Mae said quietly.“What must be nice?” Mick asked as he walked into the cabin that used to be Paul and Opal Anne’s.“We were talking about Opal Anne,” Betty Mae said. “She told us before they left that she thought she was having a baby.”“Really!? Paul. But over a period of time, she also started noticing me. Sometimes she would even give out a smile as she passed by me. But I didn’t have the courage to go talk to her face to face.One day I decided to follow her cab to see who else works in her office. One of the guys in the next street did. He used to come to the corner shop to smoke and I made friends with him. After a couple of weeks, we became close and used to discuss girls and random things that every bachelor does.Then I started asking.