AS THE MOUSE

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Soap Opera "As The Mouse Moves" - Monday February 11th 2002
"What's the matter Stan?  You look as if you saw a ghost," Nicole said as Stanley walked into the office in the Empire State Building and closed the door behind him.
"Nicole we've got to talk."
"Sure Stan," she said smiling seductively as she walked towards her wealthy older employer and stood very close to him.
"Your Father called me on my cell phone."
"Oh no.  What did he say?" she asked the smile leaving her face as her shoulders immediately slumped.
"He saw the pictures that you had taken for Playbody Magazine," Stanley said in a hushed voice his face turning gray.
"How did he get those pictures Stanley?"
"Your boyfriend Vinny."
"Damn," she said turning and walking towards the window.
"Did you know he had the pictures?"
"No, of course not. How could Vinny get the pictures?  The only person that had the proofs were you and Playbody," she said turning to look at Stanley with a question in her eye.
"Of course I didn't give out the pictures."
"Do you still have them?"
"No. I noticed them missing from my desk drawer a couple of weeks ago."
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because I thought maybe the cleaning man snooped around and took them."
"Well, how did Vinny get them."
"You didn't take them from the desk to show your boyfriend?"
"Me show Vinny pictures of me like that?  Never."
"Well, he got them and he showed them to your Father."
"I can't believe Vinny.  I'll kill him for this."
"If your Father doesn't kill him first."
"Well, he shouldn't have done that."
"He wanted your Father to make you quit this job and marry him."
"I'll never marry him."
"You aren't in love with him Nicole?"
"No."
"Your Father said that you and Vinny were engaged to be married soon," Stanley said still shocked by the news.
"Well, we were kinda' engaged…. But I never really planned to marry him."
"Why?"
"It was the only way I could get my Father to let me leave Florida and come to New York. He thought if I was engaged he wouldn't have to worry about me and men."
"Your Father wanted you to marry him them?"
"Yeah.  That's why my Father hired him to work in the family business."
"Then why would your Father fire Vinny?"
"He fired him?"
"That's what he said.  Nicole this puts me in a real bad situation you know."
"Why Stanley.  Father doesn't know about us."
"Yes he does."
"You mean he knows?"
"Yes and your Father is angry."
"Don't worry he'll calm down, he doesn't know anything about you really. Besides he's in Florida how bad can it be?"
"I think he's on his way here," Stanley said feeling a pain in his chest.
CONTINUED TOMORROW. MORE SOAP PHOTOS BELOW.