"K..Katherine? Are you in there?" "Tom, I don't think I can see you right now." Her response stunned me. I knew she would be reserved, but she had nev...r outright rejected me like this before. "Look, Kath, I understand how you're feeling. I feel the same, trust me. But I really need to talk to you about it." "T... Tom, I can't," she replied. I could hear her voice beginning to break up on her, and she was starting to cry. "Kath, please don't get upset. It kills me to see or hear you like that.". What makes it even worse, is that you witnessed it and did nothing to stop it. Do you understand the problem now?”“Yes Sir.”I grabbed Laura’s hair, and punctuated the following with a slap to her face on each and every word.“Do. You. Really. Understand?”Her only response was a very respectful, “Yes Sir.” She knew that an apology at this point, would get her nowhere with me.“If you can’t keep your own house in order, then you are of no use to me. By all rights, I should cut your worthless ass. Now this was just a one bedroom beach house, and so Russell had planned on sleeping on that couch. Since I said I wasn't really tired and I wanted to stay up a little longer, that really didn't leave Russell able to go to bed yet himself either! Whether he was just being polite then or not, Russell said he wasn't that tired either, and he'd love to have my company for a while longer. THEN, just as John and I'd planned earlier, he asked me if I'd packed his sleeping pills. I told him I had and. . listen Nick I can’t really do anything I’m afraid. Sorry about that!” I tried.“You been wanking?” He guessed. “What are you on about? Someone here already?”“No, no ones here but I can’t just, you know… do that at the moment ok?”“Why not?” He asked bemused. “Looks like you need some.”“I… I… have a boyfriend!” I stuttered out embarrassed. He laughed at me.“And he doesn’t want you gobblin’ off other blokes?” He joked.“Well, I thought I would try and be faithful. You know, I thought it might be.