‘I can’t imagine what it must be like. So many things you’ll have to learn to cope with.’ He looked at me closely. ‘How do you feel?’ ‘F...ne,’ I said. At that moment I realised that there was a strange sensation in my stomach, an… emptiness? I’d never felt any kind of need, or lack, and I frowned, then my face cleared and I smiled at Tim. ‘Think I’m hungry, though.’ Tim hurriedly pulled back the covers and said in an anxious voice, ‘Of course, I’m sorry, we must find you something to eat right. We just played around the edges of the story with casual innuendo and pseudo facts to whet his appetite. We could see a slight shift in his mindset begin to form around the third dive. He was becoming a tolerable kid to be around.By the time the sixth dive was over however, he was joining in our shopping trips with a little more interest. Apparently time had nothing to do with the transition. It had to be about the volume of this strange air that passed through your lungs and every capillary of. She was my first, and she showed me many ways the world worked, and she became my world. However, it was only when she broke my heart about eight months later that I started to see things for how they really were. She was textbook needy, she was depressed, she was up, she was down, she had to be invited to everything I ever attended but I was never invited to any of her social events, which sounds petty but really did make me feel sour. And all she liked to do was smoke weed, which is not as. .. I don’t know ... more than just risqué?”Jordan gave me a lover’s kiss complete with tongue then reached down into the bag that she’d set down beside her. She pulled out two paperback books that had some yellow tabs coming out of them. “I thought you might ask that question so here, look at the areas that I’ve marked and we’ll talk more when I get back. Gotta pee.” and with that she got up and went to the bathroom.I took one of the books Jordan had given me and opened it to the first tab..