All I could do was laugh. Not because I was embarrassed for her but more because she actually did something so adventurous. In a weird way it kind of ...ade me jealous though. I was always competitive with her growing up. In sports, in school and definitely with boys. I couldn't count how many times my boyfriends would drool over her and make themselves look like fools whenever she was around. It was like I didn't even exist sometimes when she was in the room. When I finally matured and came into. " There you go. Just like I figured. You don't tell him you want the chance and he doesn't know." Thanks, Hal. I'm so glad you pushed me into telling him. I owe you." A beer and a pizza will do the trick."She laughed. "You work cheap. How about Friday night, our usual at Luigi's?" Works for me."We had fallen into a friendly companionship over the last two months. Christmas had come and gone and New Years was upon us. I had been invited to a party with Renata and Bruno and I was pretty sure they. .." He trailed off, lost in some inner thoughts.Joanna did some thinking too. She loved George and always had. Not in a sexual way, or indeed in any way that could threaten her marriage to Dave, but like an older brother perhaps. She wanted him to be happy. She knew George's daughters had been urging him to date; Helen had been dead for nearly 10 months now and given the nature of the disease that killed her, there could have been no sex for at least twice that time if not longer.But he hadn't. For some reason, I always worked diligently on my studies. I read ahead for each subject, and always tried to avoid those frantic times when a paper was coming due, or a big test loomed. I usually turned in any papers I'd written well ahead of the deadline.Unlike me, Kathryn liked to procrastinate and dither. She usually started studying the night before a big test. She never finished any papers she needed to write before the actual due date. She lived on the edge, playing some form of Russian.