She had burst into my office flung her arms around my neck and kissed me passionately on the lips.I struggled to free myself and asked her what the he...l she thought she was doing."Kissing you my sweet... kissing you" she replied with a great grin on her face. I thought no more of it, until today. She and a cohort had set me up beautifully."Well... well do you deny that is you and Rebecca, kissing?" No... no, I don't... but it's not what you think... it was all very carefully orchestrated" I. That wasn’t counting the likely chance of bad hygiene or malnourishment, both of which could wreck my health, particularly when added to diseases more common to this era, but less familiar to me. No, I had to rise to even live out the decade, I strongly suspected. Besides, with the amulet, I would be able to do so quite well.I thought for a moment on why I had been so focused on the short-term and survival, not making larger plans per se, and then it hit me. On some subconscious level, I had. Finally, the lights at the crossing changed in my favour, and as the traffic ground to a halt amidst a cacophony of blaring horns, I half-staggered, half-ran across the road, dropping my duffle-bag as I threw myself into Aubrey’s open arms. Not caring about the tide of humanity swirling around us, we locked ourselves in an embrace that almost crushed the breath out of our bodies, and exchanged the furious, passionate kiss that we had evidently both been anticipating for several hours. My hands. You will be almost through with college. Your mother will probably be promoted to editor by that time or she'll go into freelance writing. I'm just not comfortable with timing right now."He sighed and shifted slightly. Joy heard the man's back crack loudly."Much better," he said with relief. "Thank you for doing that. I was a bit worried that your mother might find me face down in the kitchen when she got home."Joy smiled because the thought of her mother finding William that way was the only.