I opened the door and standing there was Kim. It took a moment to register because she wasn’t wearing the hotel uniform anymore. Instead she had on ...ne of those puffy jackets that look like a freaking life jacket and black lu-lu lemon pants tight on her legs. She stood there smiling in her cute way and holding a cardboard box. I didn’t know what to say. She did. She pushed past me into the room. “Aren’t you going to invite me in? I hoped that you weren’t sleeping but I figured you wouldn’t. She hated it when it stuck out of the edges of her seat in school. When her classmates would tease her about it, feelings of loneliness would swallow her. And when her father called her ‘fat ass,’ Janet usually ended up crying herself to sleep at night. The clock on the wall said four-thirty. Janet’s mother was in the living room watching talk shows on TV. Her father wouldn’t be home from work until six. He’d probably start in on her the minute he walked in the door. He’d say, ‘You call that. ’ ‘OK!’ she grinned. ‘And then into the tent so we can make love,’ I said, ‘or at least pretend to.’ ‘That I can live with,’ she grinned back at me. I left it as late as I could, I needed the moonlight yes, but I needed Viktor pissed or out even more. As Emma started to nod against me I opened our box and we finished the last of the cooked rabbit I’d saved, we’d been too ill to shag and not been fed of course. I broke out the dwindling boiled sweets in my tin and we had a couple each, at least. We finished showering, dried off and hurredly got ready for dinner. Dinner was magical. The food, the wine, the company; all perfect. We played footsie all through dinner, and whispered to one another about our experience in the shower earlier that evening.. He excused himself to the restroom, and I could see his erection. I laughed to myself, and emptied my wine glass. I couldn't wait to get back up to our room. Once up in the room, we walked out to the balcony into the warm night air. The.