Jared shook his head and could not turn to meet my eyes. ‘I wish I could but it is true. I will get Lily to start paying you for work in the bakery....�� I shook my head. ‘I can’t do that. You let me live upstairs rent free. You can’t start paying me as well.’ Nick took a step forward and ducked his head so that his lips were level with my ear. ‘You’regoing to have to drop your pride at some point to pay me off.’ He whispered. ‘I’ll call you later Jared. You can deal with her problem now.’ He gave. "Whew ... Good," Mark chuckled."Nice to know you'd be jealous though." Why?" Why?" I made a face at him. "A girl needs that! Seriously. What good is having a boyfriend if he doesn't get jealous?" Yeah, but being jealous..." Mark shook his head."What? Now you're saying you wouldn't be jealous?" I giggled. "Make up your mind." I think I'd be jealous if, um, well like if you didn't tell me. If you kept it a secret, that would hurt," Mark said. "Or if you were serious..." I was pretty serious with. Talk to Harry. It can’t wait.”Mister Mason nodded, “I will call him at home today. I don’t know what he can do. It’s serious.” They nodded gravely.We went home.The phone was ringing when we came in the door. Karen said, “Dad, I’m sorry.”Her father said, “Don’t be. It’s not about you except for me. Karen, you are my daughter. I love you and support you completely. Fred is wrong. It’s going to take more than our church to straighten him out.“Now, I want you to sit between your mother and Brad and. He’ll get bored with them after he has worn them and had a chance to really play with them. I think he’s just curious about them. Sometimes saying no only makes someone want what they can’t have that much more.” “No! I mean it!” replied my mother.I was sitting in my room pretending to play with Matchbox cars thinking about how Dad has just tried to give me all those glorious new, sheer nylon stockings. Now I was bound and determined to get my hands on them. I knew if caught by Dad I would be.