Chapter 253: Yesterday When I Was Young

So what happened after the man who deflowered you disappeared?" Eve asked.

"Dad told my mom to dry out, or get out. She chose to leave us alone. Dad quit traveling out of town. He took a job working for Big Ed the bail bondsman. A couple of months later he was working for half the bondsmen on the east coast. If he went out of town when I wasn't in school, I traveled with him. If I was in school. I stayed with Jennifer and her parents over night. That's how Jen and I got to be close like sisters. That and I let her screw the same boys I did. I kind of passed on the best ones to her, and culled the assholes. I had a bit thicker skin than Jen.

From my dad in those days I learned the difference between fact and fiction. I also learned that sometimes one can make fiction look like fact, and then swear to it. It's a trick that works best, when the people want to be fooled. When you take down a really bad guy, it doesn't take much to convince a fury that it was justified. The lesson my dad taught me was that people expect bad men to act badly.

Just give the people what they want, and you can walk away from most anything. That's all O J Simpson's lawyers did. Protecting your freedom is really more about picking your enemies, than it is about how you fight your battles.

Now young lady, I am going to bed. I have a full day tomorrow even though I have no idea what I will be doing. I watched as Eve stripped off her jeans and short sleeve sweatshirt. She had a nice thin body. Even if it was just a pile of some synthetic material it was shaped nicely. It looked as though they had pumped up her boobs during her last overhaul. They were always adding thing to her, so I shouldn't have been surprised. It looked as thought they intended for Aster to be their test track. I didn't mind, since it gave me a spare set of hands that didn't eat much.

I laid in the bed and closed my eyes, when I opened them again the morning sun was shining in the front window. Since the building faced east, and since the building across the street was one story, the sun shined through my window. My windows were tinted to prevent people seeing in during the day. They also had a neat little lighting trick that caused a glare on the glass at night giving me privacy without drapes. The downtown house was very sleek an modern even if it was in a building almost a hundred years old.

I was feeling much better by the time Eve returned to Aster. I had allowed enough time to pass so that I was pretty much able to do anything I wanted. I might have to do things a little differently, than I would have a month before, but still I could 'get it done', as the saying went.

The first morning Eve was back in town, we went to Helen's for breakfast. Well I had breakfast Eve had coffee. "You know," she whispered, "I am beginning to enjoy coffee in the morning. The little bit of outside head in my reservoir is a rather pleasant feeling." she confided in me.

"That is so uninteresting," I said with a smile to let her know i was kidding. "You should write a book for the others to read. All the little tricks you have learned."

"You are being very sarcastic this morning did I disturb your memory farm last night?" she asked.

"What the hell is a memory farm?" I asked.

"You know, where you bury your bad memories," she said.

"I have no idea what you are trying to say," She obviously was on here own program. It was getting harder to tell, when she was on her own.

"Oh alright," Eve said.

"Let's go to the mall and walk," I suggested.

"Good the old men there like me," she said.

"They are going to like you more now that you have bigger boobs," I suggested.

"They aren't that much bigger. Just a little bigger than yours," she said smiling proudly.

"Now that was mean," I suggested with a smile.

"I know, it seems my personality donor had an evil streak," Eve said.

We hustled around the mall for an hour walking and carrying on moving conversations with people as we passed. All the walkers at the mall were older and most didn't walk very fast. Most of the time I sailed around them, but I was still recovering from all my injuries so I went a bit slower than usual. Eve easily matched her gate to mine, so that we walked easily together.

The hour was complete, so we headed out to the maroon cruiser with the bike rack on back. It was the cruiser I had begun with. The bike rack reminded me the Gunny. I wanted his bike back. I decided that it was the right day to get it done. So before I got into the cruiser I called Jen on the phone.

I explained to her receptionist what I wanted done. So of course she switched me to a new paralegal Jen had hired, since her return from Swamp. He was black and his name was Jeff. I had met him, but it was while I was in the hospital, so i didn't have a clear memory of him. Just that he was tall and the color of coffee with a lot of cream.

"Good morning Ms Stone, what can I do for you?" he asked.

"Jeff, I want my bike repaired and returned to me. I don't care, if I have to pick up the pieces and take it to the speed shop, I just want it done." I said sternly.

"Let me get with Jen and see what is the best thing to do about that. I will call you back just as soon as I talk to her." Jeff said.

"Do it soon Jeff," I said.