’ ‘Have you ever considered that might be part of the attraction? Becoming fixated on someone you can’t actually have to avoid intimacy?’ �...Ugh,’ Amy rolled her eyes. ‘Plus I heard myself say ‘protective.’ I hadn’t thought about that until I said it out loud. Hey, that reminds me, I had another anxiety attack this week, but it was different from the others, milder this time. I was running and this guy in my running club was catching up to me and when I heard him chasing me I got the same. However he did not deny that he had ever been in Elaine's car, nor that he and Elaine had been ... acquainted.However after all of the police investigations there was no actual evidence that could prove that John Rivers had ever been behind that particular steering wheel, at any time.An acquaintance of Elaine's he might have claimed be, but the police turned-up ample evidence that the man and Elaine had been ... covertly "keeping company" behind my back, on a regular basis. Apparently, for the. Some weather girl, who was almost completely dressed, advised that a tropical storm was riding the gulf stream north. It wasn't supposed to make landfall where we sat, but it might be a brush by. Since Wilson and I had never been in the middle of even a 'brush by', I was concerned."So how about we call someone for some advice," He suggested."I don't know let me think. I would feel a lot better, if those plants at the garage were more rooted," I said. They would keep the wind away from the. It felt like I should be able to make it move quicker than it did; that it was moving in slow-motion.When we got up to 1000 pounds, there was a bit of creaking of metal as I shifted the weight off the rack and it transferred through my arms down to the bench supports. I was beginning to feel the weight, even using the adrenalin.The guys started loading on smaller weights and I asked about that."It's because all the big plates we have are already on the bar," Steve told me. "We're going to load.