When we got to the stairwells she turned and said factually “I don’t have a boyfriend for your information”. I grinned and asked if I should pas... that on to Roy, and Chloe shrieked and launched herself to poke me but I managed to race up the stairs to safety as though my legs hadn’t just jogged twenty times up and down the chapel steps.Knowing Chloe a bit was good actually. Flats 4B and 5B kind of joined up and often went together to the student union. We even sometimes made dinners for both. "A fight?" he answered angrily. "No fight. She's just pulling that holier than thou attitude again." I don't understand," said Kerri."DO I HAVE TO SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU?" he shouted. "SHE WON'T PUT OUT!"Kerri cringed to hear that phrase again, even after all these years."Look, Kyle, sex is a big step for a girl to take." YOU SHOULD KNOW!" he snarled.She drew back a bit, wounded, surprised he could still hurt her after all the insults he had hurled her way in the last four years."Ironic, isn't. I knowlife must change but I'd had enough change already when Dad moved away.Why did I have to loose my girlfriend as well?When I got home I just went straight to bed. I was glad that I didn'tsee Mum or Beth. As I snuggled under the duvet I reflected on life andgently sobbed into my pillow. My life as I knew it would never be thesame. I would have no real friends at school and outside school I wouldbe alone.Eventually I drifted off to a fitful sleep. At just past one in themorning I awoke. Jim paid for his goods slightly embarrassed about what had transpireddue to his choice to bend over from the waste instead of properly atthe knees. Jim drove home, carried in his packages, and then quicklyput away the goods, grabbed Jen's ballet apparel, and jumped back intothe car to drive to Jen's school.Jim picked her up and then speed to the dance studio where Jenpracticed. Jim chose to go get something to eat rather than sit withthe mothers outside the studio on that unusually warm October.