C'mon. Let's get to sleep."With another fit of yawning, we shut the lights and groaned our way into bed, lying uncovered and facing each other in the ...im wash of early daylight that filtered through the curtained window.We lay on our sides, facing each other in the dark. I closed my eyes. From the window behind me, the city stirred faintly. It was an unfamiliar sound, one I'd never heard when falling asleep in Memphis -- a vague, distant but lurking and steady noise, a hint of the unexpected,. Tonight, he thought to himself, he would have to be selfish and wake her as soon as he got in, to satisfy his urgent need. He put his hand in his pocket and discreetly shifted himself lest his semi-erection become apparent to everyone. Robert had noticed that Gianni had turned away from watching them. As Gianni turned, Robert hastily knocked a fork off of the table. The fork bounced off his leg and travelled underneath the long tablecloth of the dining table. Laughing to himself, he pushed back. It was malicious of me. I wanted you to think that we were back together so you would know it was over between you and me. It wasn't true.I've finished my Masters, and I'm taking a few months off from school to earn some spending money for when I return to work on my Doctorate. Happy twenty-second birthday! I think of you often.S.Shirley Pennington had lied to me. I'd thought of her often too. She was right; it had been malicious of her to make me think she'd gone back to Darien. What a. How different my new life with Nicolette, John, and Curly was from the old one with Harold. I scratched the skin under my shirt collar, chafing.Back at Sea Cliff I got naked at the door. I gathered my entire wardrobe, clothes, underwear, shoes, everything, and put them in one of the big trash bins downstairs. I emptied my backpack and did the same with it. I’d go to school in my new yoga outfit or one of those fancy dresses before wearing anything from my old life. It sounds frivolously.