This week with Arlene and Jeff:
..."Yeah, I know, but darnit, I'm getting more afraid all the time. This surely isn't anything like meeting one of our clients for the first time. He had paid the escort service for us, but we didn't know at that point whether he wanted anything beyond arm candy. But, men are easy. Long before the escort part was over, I always knew - and I know you did too - if he was going to ask for more, and I would have made up my mind whether I was willing to risk him or not."
"Crap," Ashley griped. "Now I'm more worried than I was when we began this conversation." After a moment, she, barely suppressing a giggle, dropped a non sequitur. "Have you ever cooked over a campfire?"
Christine let out a nervous giggle. "The only campfires I've ever even seen were on TV or at the movies. Does that count?"
Ashley sighed. "I hope so because that's as close as I've ever been, too."
"Did you notice that outhouse on the vid? At least I think that was what it was? There was a porta potty sitting a few feet from it. The porta potty was just like the ones at the park."
"Yeah, I got that okay, and the outhouse is painted up so nice that it almost looks… cute, but I don't look forward to sitting in either of those things with it so cold. You did notice all that snow piled along the walkway where they had been shoveling it clear? At least we're familiar with that," Ashley said with a grimace.
"Yeah, too familiar. I wonder how long it is until summer there?"
"Good question. And Diana said that the only heat was that fire we saw on the vid."
"I think that was a big pile of wood that was barely visible on past their bed. Don't you have to chop wood for it to burn properly? I've seen people doing that in the movies, but that's all I know about it."
"Yeah, I think so. Uh, the cave has a dirt floor. I guess that walking around in our sock feet on cold mornings won't be happening there."
"Still want to go?"
"Heck, yes. I'll shovel snow, cut up buffalo, kiss Jasmine's ass and do anything else she asks if she'll let me - let us - be with Morales."
"Yeah. Me, too."...
Have a goodun;
Roust