Escaped to a lonely small apartment, endless days of working, preparing tests, grading tests, then more reading and working; escaped. The first summe... was just returning home and meeting friends of my parents, mostly older divorcees that I felt my Mother was trying to pimp me out to. I’d hid in my room most of the time, just reading my romance novels I’d bought. It was the only escape I truly had. I imagined my Romeo holding me close, kissing me tenderly, then in the moonlight we’d make. It started getting dark around 9, the fireflies were glowing as the sun dropped behind the trees. I looked over to see Jen just cleaning up after supper and her k**s sitting around the fire, I see her grab a water jug and start walking down the path, I grab my water bottle, and head the same way. We meet in the path and walk together. "Hi, sorry this is the first time I could get away for a second," She says. "That's no problem," I say," I know you've been busy, but its so great to finally meet. Even when I’ve done nothing wrong.”Mac laughed, “Christ! Is it any wonder that I am madly in love with you?”“I love you too, Mac,” Grace said wistfully.“Shall we rest up for round three?” he teased.“I’m about a dozen or two orgasms ahead of you, Mac. I don’t think I could cum again if I tried.”A half-hour later, Mac proved her wrong. Chapter Forty-SevenSince they had a day to kill in Florence before heading to Barcelona, they decided to play tourists again. Mac booked an all-day trip to the. It made it easy to watch what they were discussing even from across the room. Liz was signing that she was rather surprised Sherry knew that many people. Daniel was suggesting that most of the people there were just professional acquaintances.Her mother was involved in a discussion with Dr. Dimsdale. It appeared that the two of them were getting along well. For some reason, that didn’t surprise her. Her father was chatting with Dr. Tiege. She headed over to rescue Dr. Tiege from her.