“I emulated the black and while TV cowboys and their fighting, how to take a fall. I practiced when I was alone using the wooden stairs to fall down... again and again so when she beat me I could play up results by exaggerated movements, act like I was really hurt yet was not so much.“But I was forsaken by her. She stood me up repeatedly in front of friends, older kids in the neighborhood, and told them I was a big baby, didn’t deserve to do things other kids were allowed. She made me scrub. You don't know whether to laugh at me or slap your hand over her mouth! Ward looked at Diana again. "Are you talking about the same Mile High club I've heard about?"Diana asked with a straight face, "Is there another Mile High club? What have you heard?"Ward leaned closer to her. "The one I've heard about, you have to have sex in an airplane over a mile off the ground. Are we talking about the same club?" Diana just grinned and said yep! You dog, you ... Duke would've done the same thing! Let's. I am great at working a company, organizing it, improving it, putting the right resources where they are needed. The people aspects …” he shrugged, “not so much. I have found great people to help me with that but … you are right. Of course you are. So, how should I do that?”For the next hour, we talked. Maybe part of my talking was the bourbon. But he was easy for me to talk to. He was real. He had opened himself to me and I doubted that had happened often before. People with insecurities don’t. We goofed off most of the morning (we fucked each other most of the morning, but our batteries lasted longer than Jerry’s pills) then mid-afternoon we got dressed and drove over to Jerry’s house. He doesn’t have a mansion, I don’t think, but it’s a really big house on a really big lot, with gates and a housekeeper and all. We let ourselves in, and the housekeeper smiled when she saw Anna. Anna sent her home and said that we’d take care of Jerry for the evening.Taking care of Jerry required Anna.