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Show 215 "Friends can sleep together." "On the floor." I had a daybed, the place where I'd first seen her, and I took off the back pillows and made her a place on the floor. But later she woke me up climbing in bed with ~e. "Those damn pillows keep sliding apart. I can't sleep down there." "You sure as hell better." I couldn't see but I didn't have to to know she was naked. "Just tonight, Chess. Come on." "No." "Why not?" She threw herself upon me. It wasn't so hard, I'd been a high school wrestler, and I rolled to toss her off, but she went over the edge to the floor. Sounded like she landed pretty hard, and she cried out and I heard her stumbling around and then the light came on. She was naked all right. "That hurt, god damn you. Right on my ass." "Right where you deserve it." "I'm gonna have a bruise the size of a basketball." She had tears in her eyes and she cane over and swung her rump around in my face, pointing out the place. "You call that friendship?" I couldn't help it, I laughed. And she swung back around and slugged me in the eye. She couldn't wrestle so good but she could surely box. Grimly she put on her robe, slammed her suitcase closed on the rest of her clothes and went down the hall to Ben's room. Maybe he was home that night and let her into his bed, or ~aybe he never made it back home, I never did find out. Anyhow, Frances left the next day. got an apartment and never lived in The Castle again. ftAtfe^-inAtov^lK The o t h e r guys l a u 9 h e d at my b1ack eye" |
