‘I look forward to working with you, Professor Berner.’ For the first time in my life, I felt like I deserved that title. Professor. I stood up, t...ok his hand, and gave it a firm shake. ‘Same, Dr. Milton.’ Milton departed with a curt nod, leaving me to bask in his pride. As I started packing up the things in my cubicle (I would be getting my own private office when I returned in the fall), my phone buzzed in my pocket. It was a text from Vicky. ‘How did it go?’ ‘Great,’ I replied. ‘I’m. Jen knew she wasn't dressed anywhere near as glamourouslyas her, but she was glad she'd made a bit of an effort with her appearance,wanting to let Kelly know she was looking for sex when she arrived. The womanstretched out a hand and placed it on Jen's hip, causing her to gasp involuntarilyas she softly moved it up her side lifting her short skirt slightly then lettingher fingers slide over the soft wool of her tight sweater. Jen could feel herbreathing becoming faster, more ragged as the. "You see, she continued. "I could have escaped from you any time afteryesterday morning." Snip-snip. "But I knew you had a warrant for myarrest, and I really didn't want to spend the rest of my life on the run,(buttons all gone? Well let's just snip through the sleeves and pull thatlovely blouse right off you!) not to mention the aggravation you couldcause with those receipts and things! So I called Karen and filled her inon just how you'd managed to spy on me. (My, your breasts certainly. ... but what hereally wanted for now was just to talk to him. To find out what the lifeof a sexual anachronism had been like for someone else. He hoped the guywould be willing to go back to the house with him, and wouldn't (as hehad so crudely signalled) want to do it right here, in the swiftanonymous manner of certain gay men, like the statues of famousRepublican congressmen having sex in the bushes by the bathroom inPalomita Park.The kid stood facing him, smiling in the cool greenish light.