‘Hey, partner, feeling any better today?’ ‘Not really.’ I replied. ‘What’s new?’ ‘Well, word is out on the street that Mendoza is roya...ly pissed at you and has vowed to kill you.’ He answered. ‘The hospital has posted their security people at all the hospital entrances and hallways on this floor.’ I waved him closer and whispered a request to him. He put his right foot up on the chair next to my bed and, rolling up his pant leg, removed a .32 calibre automatic from a holster strapped to his. “Late breakfast.” Beaver said.“Probably.” I replied, then continued, “hey Beaver, shall we call ourselves by our full names whilst we’re here, it could be good fun, get us used to it before we go back to college because I’m sure that the guys will call us all the names related to our names that they can think of.”“Okay tit topping Areola.”“Okay bald Beaver.”We laughed then got out of the car. The 3 young men were already half looking at us but when they saw our ultra short dresses and bare. Mark ofcourse knew nothing about last night's developments. He rose when Ientered the room. "Oh, I've missed you so much. I've been looking forwardto this all week," he said as he stepped towards me.I held up my hand. "I'm sorry Mark. I really just not up to this today.I had a difficult night last night and I'm just not feeling very...romantic."I wasn't sure how he'd react, but I thought he might be annoyed. Butinstead he said, "You poor thing. Here you sit down and why don't you tellme. At 5 pm, everything was packed and the suitcases loaded in the cars. Todd excused himself for a quick drive into town because at the last minute he had decided to buy a new headset for his laptop. He found his old one no longer good enough for the use of Skype chatting with his lovers at home. He bought an expensive one but one that was clearly indicated it was very suitable for Skype connections. He hoped he would find some time in Berkeley to stay in contact with his current and former lovers.