I put my arms around his neck and pulled him closer to me, planting a soft kiss on his lips. “You were incredible!” I told him as I rubbed his sho...lders. “You always say that,” he replied sheepishly. “Only because it’s true!” I reminded him with playful sternness. He started unbuttoning his uniform as he walked into the locker room. I followed close behind, but he quickly turned me away. “I change and shower and see you behind the ballpark. Maybe in 20 minutes.” “But I want to see you now,” I. I was really getting pissed at this point. Mom laughed and said, “You’re just afraid to do anything because you know I’m right.” I told her that I wasn't afraid, it was just that she was my mom and I wouldn't do anything mean to her like that. That’s when she stepped up and she slapped me across the face. “You should act like a man and do something! You just let a girl slap you!”I was really losing it. I was furious, but I still tried to turn around and walk away, when she grabbed me by. I parked some yards away from the cabin and waited.After forty-five minutes had passe by I thought about leaving and going to an hotel, when a black van passed by me and pulled into the small driveway of the cabin and then parked in one of the three available spaces in front it.Two men got out. Both looked in their middle thirties, one slightly balding. They took out some bags from the van and then a medium sized black dog appeared making me jump. It was a black labrador, about 65 pounds, and. ." Is it a girl?" Prof. Manichev asks, winking.Morgen!"I... I guess," I shrug my shoulders."Well, there's not competing with that," he laughs and claps me on theshoulders in a jovial, 'we're all men here' kind of way."But seriously, you need to get your head back in the game. I'm going torecommend that you join in with the graduate students on the advancedtopics lecture program. But I worry you won't be able to keep up unlessyou devote your entire focus to the reading." But I'm... I mean... how.