Sal always had a strand of park rat in him though, especially about things he had sentimental feelings about, so he was able to produce emails and pictures to prove what he was telling me was in fact the truth. When I was done, I gave her the money, as usual, and she left without saying much of anything. I should have known something was coming from the way she acted that last time. I saw a light blue Hyundai pull in with a woman who looked a lot like the picture I’d gotten from Niki. You see, the thing he couldn’t say, even in his final-almost confession to me was that he’d fallen in love with Niki. They filled the time between when we could meet, and over time, she began to refer to me as “a friend” and the two of us exchanged more details of our lives. We went at it for a good while, and she had an “orgasm” which even I could tell was faked, then she asked me to do something
