Me: You’re right about that.Eve: So what do you think about this place?Me: It’s nice. A lot of nature!Eve: Hahaha! Yes. We’re out in the middle ...f nowhere.Me: Where’s the mountain I heard about?Eve: You’re standing on it! Hahaha!Me: Really?Eve: Well, yes, sort of. That’s what they call it, I look at it as a big hill.Me: I was expecting a mountain with jagged edges high up.Eve: Not all mountains are like that! Hahaha! Come on.We were walking in the woods. Eve was leading and I was following her.. He awaited a reply, hoping against hope that somebody would see his signal in a bandwidth graph or notice the size of the fragmented data packets and work out that it was a message. He felt like an ancient sailor casting a note into the ocean in a glass bottle, an almost futile gesture.Night eventually came, and he found himself dozing off in his seat, rubbing his itchy eyes as he waited for a message that might never come. Perhaps he was kidding himself, and his plan was ridiculous. What if. The light had just turned green and she started through the intersection. I watched in horror as the truck bore down on us, plowing through the red light.“NO!” I screamed and didn’t even have time to reach out to her before it slammed into her door. Everything lurched like someone had picked up the car and shaken it. I could see flying glass and hear screaming and then I hit my head and everything stopped.I don’t know how long I was out, but when I came to, I could hear sirens in the distance.. Nothing! He began to try and give the kiss of life. Still nothing!"God," he said eventually, "I think he's gone." He looked carefully at his father's naked body and then turned to Rose."I presume, my dear, that you and my father had been making love?"Rose nodded tearfully."Is he really dead? He brought me here from the club about ten o'clock. He was fine then and started taking my clothes off. I've been here before, you know, so I let him do what he wanted. He was very virile and soon he was.