"Good morning, Ms.Patrick," I greeted her."Good morning to you too, Mr.Wilkins." Let me get to the point, Ms.Patrick. How old were you when you first ...ad sex - I mean, intercourse?" I was over eighteen. As Ben - Mr.Russoe - said, it was on his birthday night." Just for the record, Ma'm. Did your father ever touch you in a sexual manner before that time?" No, of course not." Who made the first move, then?" I did - well, actually, circumstances brought us together and I just took advantage of the. ”“Why didn’t you do it at home?”“I only made the final decision in the car this afternoon. I had been thinking about it, and I talked to Stephanie about it. I wasn’t going to make any decision until Christmas, but today I decided I needed to stop acting like an entitled jackass and put my money where my mouth is.”“Steve, you are the last person to think they’re entitled to anything! You work hard for everything you have, whether it’s your car, your apartment, your grades, or your friends.. Nothing regularly scheduled, but we both wanted keep in touch. But our phone conversations were always brief and it was hard to read emotions into IM's or emails. The fact was, neither of us wanted to talk about Ryan or Adrienne, and with those two such big parts of our daily lives, it was a struggle to find other topics of discussion. The end result was that we just didn't communicate like we used to."I just," I began slowly. "I just wanted to know what you think, you know? Dawn tells me stuff. "As I walked to my desk out of his office, I heard him on the phone calling the different departments. I saw a man from the Get Ready Department sitting at my desk, a good-looking, big black man. I had seen him around but did not know his name. I looked at his name tag and I saw "Butch." I said, "My, Butch, you're a few minutes early. Would you mind so terribly if we just delayed this an hour or two? Mr. Ballard is calling your department right now, explaining what is going to happen today.".