She lingered long to enough in silence to garner Umi’s attention.“Is everything okay?” Umi asked. “You have been awfully quiet today.”Ashley...fought to keep from shaking. “Actually, Dr. Um--Umi.” She stammered face burning. “Would you like to have dinner with me?”Umi’s momentum to work crashed into a mountain. She pulled her face away from the screen and stared at her student. Now it was Umi’s turn to be tongue-tied. “W--what are you talking about, Ashley? Y--you, the cafeteria is closed.”“I. After leaving Los Angeles early in the morning, the train made its way north and in the late afternoon they finally reached Castroville where they caught a branch train to Monterey. ‘I’m for spending the night. I don’t fancy trying to drive to the place in the dark,’ Jack said, watching the sun set into the Pacific. The two friends walked from the station to the nearest hotel and booked two rooms for the night and after having dinner, retired for the evening, tired from the long trip. The next. Tiger was keeping score, she seemed entirely too smug in the cock of her whiskers.I was severely shaken at one point, it had been pretty easy for me to dehumanize the brain dead, because- well, quite frankly, they were pretty inhuman. However, I really felt soul sickened to have to lop one pretty young thing, still attractive beneath her slack features and dull eyes.I guess I was still young enough to be suffering from lacka-nookie, all these many weeks since the eotw. Well, three weeks anyway,. She never told me when she was going to see him next, but it was obvious whenever she did. She would come home from work early wearing one of her more expensive outfits, her hair and make up would be a mess, and she would always blush whenever I tried talking to her. There was one area we never explored though- sex. Soon after we started this, she made it clear that sex between us was something that would never be considered. And by the look in her eyes, I knew how serious she was about that..