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 Chapter 8 The chief was in a foul mood these days.  He had already filed
for his mayoral candidacy.  But was getting no traction on his platform of
shutting down the club.  He just had no proof that anything bad was
happening there.

   The chief had tried to get another undercover cop into the club, but
they never even made it past the front door.  So he settle for having
people watch the club during business hours from outside, and having
members and even the parents of the children, stopped as they were arriving
at the club.  Harassing them, in an attempt to get them to talk about the
goings on in the club.  They just ignored the questions and were eventually
let go and aloud into it.

   Meanwhile, the other candidates, never even mentioned the club, and
don't even consider answering any questions about it.  They just move on to
someone else question if it's brought up.

   He was very much aware of Grey's time spent at the club and tried daily
to get him to spill the goods on it.  Grey merely replied, "It's a social
club.  The kids even have their own area that no members are allowed in. 
It is all perfectly innocent", never changing his story.  Grey had since
found out that he was not the first member of the police force to join the
ranks in the club, two other fellow officers were also members in good
standing and both when questioned separately by the chief.  But they told
the same story as Grey.  It was just an innocent social club the kids were
they volunteer to be servers and busboys for the members.  The chief was
getting a lot of pressure to back off and reluctantly was giving in, too
many high ranking people in the town were members of the club.

   Grey was now a regular fixture at the club.  Showing up on most evenings
for nothing more than a beer and companionship with people he felt
comfortable with.  On occasion he might disappear into the back of the club
with one child or another for an hour or so of heavy breathing.

   After a few weeks at the club he was becoming a favorite of the children
there and always had his pick of whom ever he might say, `yes', to.  His
favorite indeed his love was given to only one of them though.  He was long
since over the jealousy of watching Kim lead another member upstairs.  He
knew that like him Kim had only given her heart to one of them and indeed
when they were both in the club at the same time the majority of their time
was spent with each other.

   He had even been invited to the home of her parents with Mike's
permission.  Where, he had been warmly received and indeed accepted as one
of the family.  They were now spending time together just the two of them a
day or two of the week outside of the club and their relationship was
growing stronger all of the time.

   It had come as a bit of a shock to him when Kim had announced that she
had been invited to go to the school dance by a boy in her grade and she
had accepted his invitation.  But realizing that she needed the real life
experiences that only events like these could give her he had accepted the
announcement with a smile on his face wanting only the best life possible
for her.

   The evening of the dance Grey went to the club.  As he did most evenings
now.  To keep Kim off his mind, he drowned his sorrow in three to four
beautiful girls and even a few boys.  None of which seemed to minded that
he was thinking of her.  One girl even put her hair up like Kim does.  All
this in hope of getting his mind off her for a few minutes.

   It was later that night, at home.  That grey recieved a phone call from
Mike needing him at the club right away.  Worried now, Grey got dressed
jumped in his car and headed for the club.