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   The next day Grey was reporting to his boss what he had found out so far
about the club.  He managed to leave out anything specific from his report
and only told the chief a bare minimum of what he had found out including
omitting the long list of rules that had been outlined to him by David the
bartender.  then after telling him he was going to be returning to the club
later that evening to continue his investigation he was once more in his
car onto his regular duties.



   That evening found him once again parked outside the club watching the
various patrons enter.  He had been early to watch the children enter and
was delighted when a car had pulled up and Kim had skipped happily into the
club.  He had not been able to get her out of his head all day and was
afraid she might not be there that night.  He could not take his eyes from
her butt as she skipped her way into the club's front doors.  He waited a
while observing the crowd and letting the club fill up before steeling up
his courage he once more found himself walking in the front door and
looking around.  He'd been half afraid the Kim would have no interest in
talking to him that night but if anything it seemed she had been watching
for him, she was at his side almost at once.  Taking his hand and leading
him to a table near the far wall where they could have a private
conversation.



   They were soon chatting about everything under the sun.Sshe was telling
him about school and her home life.  Kim said she was in 4th grade and a
straight A student, she told him how she had been into dance until just
last year when she had grown bored with it.  She chatted on and on telling
him her life story and asking him a ton of questions about himself.  Even
as he learned about her family that she was an only child of happily
married parents.  She learned that he had never married having a string of
unsuccessful relationships.  He learned how it came about that she was
invited to join the staff at the club and she found out that he was a
police officer and had been since getting out of college.  He ended up
telling her how he had grown up the middle child of 5 kids in a small
midwestern town.  He told her how he had always wanted to be a cop and was
living his dream such as it was.  He had been stuck in a rut for years now
in his personal life he'd told her truthfully.  He opened up and told her
about his loneliness and no matter how hard he tried he just never fit in
anywhere.  Somewhere in the 2 hour conversation Kim had went from sitting
across the table from him to sitting on his lap her arms around his neck.
Then in a pause in the conversation she kissed him.  Gently but firmly on
the lips.  He found himself responding in kind enjoying the first kiss he'd
had in a very long time.



   They spent that evening together just enjoying each others company
becoming comfortable in one another arms and slowly in one another's
hearts. They kissed and hugged a lot that night enjoying the close personal
contact learning to trust each other as equals.  Grey didn't learn anything
he could report to his boss that night but he did learn a great deal about
himself.  He learned that he could be comfortable getting close to another
human being.  That he was able to kiss another person without thinking that
the next step must be to get her into bed.  But most of all he was coming
to terms with the fact that he was extremely sexually attracted to this
precocious child and that he could not get her face out of his mind even
for a minute.  The thought actually crossed his mind that he was falling in
love with her.  The night passed all too quickly and soon Kim had to go
home, his mind was in turmoil as he walked her to the clubs door and
kissing her goodnight watched her longingly as she once more walked out of
his life.



   Grey found himself at the bar once more ordering a beer and chatting
with David the bartender who had been at the guest bar the first night Grey
had entered the club.  He was at his normal station this night as the
members bartender.  He was soon bending David's ear about how great he
thought the club was and especially how great Kim was.  David was just
grinning ear to ear as he went on and on about that sweet sexy little girl.
 -�got you hooked on her already don't she. -� he said knowingly.   -�just
don't go getting possessive on her she is a free agent and if she decides
she spends her time with you that is her choice, but if she finds someone
else she wants to spend time with more you just have to accept it, do you
understand? -� Grey was shaking his head yes even though inside his mind he
was shouting  -�no!  No! -�



   Grey spent the next few evenings at the club  -�investigating -� without
seeing Kim at all.  He had already learned everything he could about her
and her family, where she went to school, where her parents worked in fact
everything a cop could dig up without actually interviewing the family.  He
knew from the rules that he didn't dare contact her outside of the club or
he would lose his membership and at that point it was the last thing he
wanted to do.



   He did have a great many conversations with other children in the club
and with David the bartender, and even with Mike and the lovely girl
Samantha who it turned out was Mike's wife.  On more than one occasion he
had been invited into the backrooms after a long chat with a child only to
gently rebuff them by saying  -�thanks I'd love to but just not tonight,
perhaps another time though. -� he found he enjoyed talking to the children
both the girls and even the boys than he had ever liked talking to his exes
and was surprised at the first time he'd been invited in the back by a boy
and had actually been tempted to go.  he had never thought he could be
attracted to a boy but there it was a huge raging hard on just from
spending time with him.  Investigating the club was a real learning
experience for him He was learning new things about himself everyday.  But
even with all of the new temptations afforded him he was just determined
that he was waiting on Kim, it was she who had first stolen his heart. 
After a few days Mike had asked him if he were enjoying the club, he'd
noticed that Grey had not taken advantage of any of the invitations to
visit the back rooms yet.   -�oh everything is wonderful -� Grey had told
him smiling  -�I'm just waiting on the right moment. -� he assured him.  
-�well don't worry . -� mike had said grinning she'll be back in a couple
of days.  Meanwhile have fun. -� and with that he was off across the club
to attend to his nightly duties of seeing that the club ran smoothly.



   He was reporting each day that absolutely nothing was going on inside
the club that was any concern of the police and arguing that they should
drop the case and move on into looking at real crimes again.  Without any
results his boss was happy with, the chief in disgusts pulls Grey off of
the assignment and throws him out of his office telling him to get back to
work.