It's really all a big game, from being conditioned as young girls to protecting our virtues from predator men, to being virginal at marriage, but what...men have ever experienced girls at stripper shows, spent time in a 'Ladies' cubical in a public toilet and read the filth we write with addresses and phone numbers scrawled on the walls of girls willing to do what they wanted, I have even written my own number and met men who have dared the phone call.I have sat in the back row of the cinema and. "Anything else Jim?"My mind never registered the last part of that question, a mistake I have come to regret. But it was at that exact moment my hankering kicked in and I remembered I had run out of cigarettes at about Summit Lake. "I'll have a Coke, a bag of those chips and some Winstons."The shopkeeper pointed to the end of the counter, and there sat a bag of chips and a Coke covered with the sweat of a drink pulled freshly from the fridge."Damn, that's quite something." I remarked. " What do you mean us?" I asked."I mean you, Kari, Helen and myself," she said."You?" I asked dumbly."Me," she replied."But... but..." I sputtered."Look, you promised me that you would not cast me aside unless it was better for me," she explained. "I can't think of any way that it would be better for me, so I assumed that you would want to keep me. Therefore, I arranged for a place for us all to live. Besides, with Helen and Karen in Boston with you, what do I have for me here?"It was true,. I thought about demanding to see the police, but something told methat wouldn't do any good. Only the Judge had the power to stop what Ifeared was happening, and he was nowhere to be seen. Still, indesperation, I sprinted from the car and rattled to door to the courtwing, but to no avail.Randy joined me on the steps, and to my horror, put an arm around me."Don't worry, sugar," he said. "Whatever you forgot, you can get whenyou go to work tomorrow."I actually jumped a little when Randy put his.