next thing i knew , world war three was about to start with machine guns drawn and the neighborhood families slipping to safety like a bad old west movie . '' * * * chapter 46 l let the silence build for another moment . had good old boy ben gotten a little sick of waiting on me to call him for a date and decided to move things along faster ? it 's a hell of a way to go . remember when you came to visit me in prison ? her fingers bit into his suit jacket and her legs trembled . 