Love runs rings around you. In a perfect world my caged bird and yours would sing. I draw you aside for hurried consultation, whether permitting – w...ether there’s anyone else there. Heaven forbid you draw me, three-dimensionally, as I truly am. I do remember once you drew me close so quietly with your arm at my waist, your hidden hand gently feeling my side. But I am the other side of you, and we can’t be on centre stage together. Can’t abide. And so this clean-and-dirty secret has to hide. You. .. that Zoe... that Zoe got promoted to the next dimension.After a minute Mr. Reed said, "We can talk another time if it's..."I smiled. "That's okay. Just a few memories." I understand." Anyway, about the middle of April we had another problem. Somebody broke into the school, trashed some classrooms, and painted some interesting biological suggestions on the door and inside the girl's locker room." Got an alibi for that one?"I grinned. "Away game. I was in Wenatchee. Then the last weekend in. She rode astride. I had seen a few other woman ride that way and that is how all the girls back home rode, so it did not seem strange to me.The lieutenant gave me a pass, a map and some money and off we went toward the Housotonic with this wooden box strapped on the pack horse that I kept trotting along behind us on a tether. We did not talk much, and when we came to a ferry someplace north of Bridgeport about sundown, I rented a room for her, and we stopped for the night. We ate in relative. As they walked into the room, Donna spun Suzi around quickly and pushed her onto the bed. “So you like it a little rough sometimes?”Suzi started to smile, but Donna’s mood caught on and she put her head down. “Yes, Mistress, this girl likes it rough.”Donna paused at her words and her tone. There was something there, something new and for the moment, something powerful in her. She knew part of it was her anger at Frank and Kurt, but something flared within her when Suzi put her head down. She.