Alone in his domicile, surrounded by the emblems of his true character, Cal put the pieces of his life back together. There in his darkened cell, in t...e early hours of the morning he assessed himself and his situation.The first girl, Sandy, he realized, was little more than a gilded hobby horse; a mirage with the buttons, bells and whistles. She’d dazzled him with her artificiality and the superficial charm typical of the shallow and the emotionally frivolous, the irrelevant. Sandy was the. Do you smoke?”That was a random question, but Mike answered for me, “No he doesn’t.”“Okay, I have to go clean the pool first but both of you have a good shower because dog urine stinks and you both smell of it. And give me back the spares in the week, okay?”As he left, Mike made a motion as if to grab his ass and sniggered. He closed the door behind him so we had the room to ourselves. We went directly to the shower after Mike pulled out shampoo and soap from his bag. We showered in the same. The tenderness was gone, and I knew deep down that it was time for me to go. Ed was on his own kick, and I had gone as far as I could with him. We parted when he set off to the States for the next tour, sadly, amicably, but with a little relief. By then he wanted to be in America most of the time anyway, and I was travelling to Cambridge more often than I ought to have done. Discovery was just a couple of badly timed bruises away, and I'd had to make excuses more than once already.For a while,. Then following a yelled message to the knockee, in what might have been Tagalog, we all get clothing on before Ganda opens the door. In walk Krissell's sisters, Ann and Ninay. There is a bunch of hugging between the girls and then Krissell is about to formally introduce them to me. But since we have already chatted on-line that sort of seemed redundant. Ann, Ninay and I all say as much at the same moment causing a lot of laughing.Hey, I don't need to be introduced, I need a hug from each of.