She’s all but sprinting for the top of the hill. I leave my normal step by step and lengthen my stride. The tips of my toes catching the gravel road...ed and digging in. Every step almost a pole-vault over my toes, I grab at the gravel with the next foot and then do the same again. The cold morning air starts to chill my lungs and burn as I pass the halfway mark. Glancing up I see her nearing the top! I dig into a place in myself I didn’t know I had till then. A place of bone and marrow but at. Adam woke hearing Beth in the kitchen making coffee. He went into the kitchen seeing his wife wearing her short robe. He walked up behind her and tried to give her a hug. Beth pushed him away and curtly said, “go away, don’t touch me.” Saturday was beginning to be a quiet day at the Williams house. Nothing was said between them.Saturday evening, the phone rang and it was Randy. Randy said, “Hey, Adam, I’m sorry what happened. We’re friends and I want to keep it that way, this shouldn’t have. I was just showing my bare body to her and then I turned and walked towards the bathroom. I Put my shirt in a bucket and went inside one of the rooms.She just followed me back into the room. I was sitting and adjusting the bed. It was a mess since it was a bachelors’ room. I arranged the sheets and pillows and got up. She was just standing and twisting her hands.. I approached her and hugged her. This time there’s no one to stare at us or make any embarrassing comments on us. So she hugged me. She liked the idea, for several reasons. I enjoyed the leisurely dinner with my best friend. It really helped get my mind off of my worries. But as it turned out, someone else was going to try to spoil it. I was on my second glass of Chianti and enjoying my strawberry gelato when Jennifer suddenly fell silent. Startled by the abrupt quiet, I looked up to see that her face had gone deathly pale. ‘Jen, what is it?’ I asked, slightly alarmed. She didn’t reply, she simply gestured across the.