“Wow, look at that view.”I slipped past the dining table to admire the view. The city was vast; sprawled before me like a carpet of light. Though ...e were only five floors up, you had a wonderful view and you could also see the people below. There were few cars that passed the road I was looking out onto. It seemed a quiet neighbourhood.Emily grabbed my attention and we sat to eat the meal she had planned. I can’t say she prepared it because the waiters brought it in. I presumed there were chefs. He knew playing hockey required good grades. He was never a boy to misbehave much in the first place, but if he gave me a hard time, all I had to say was, "You don't pick up your room, I don't bring you to hockey practice tomorrow." He pushed his luck on that only once. He found out I wasn't bluffing.Unless he was on the ice, where he morphed into a beast I hardly recognized, he was very laid back and easy-going. Nothing seemed to faze him; he took everything in stride. He also had a. Emma bundled her suitcases into the boot of the car first and then jumped into the front seat and began texting on her phone. Lottie’s suitcase was heavy and she had to lift it with both hands into the back of the Mini. Fuck! She bit her lip as she felt Mrs Smith step behind her and slide her hands around the curve of her hips to steady her. “Careful Miss Harrington,” Silvia purred. “Let me help you.” Lottie tingled all over as she felt Mrs Smith’s warm breath in her ear as she spoke, she. I could tell, as he quivered, the fear inside of him that he would lose me was as nightmarish a thought as it was for me to be without him. He tried to compose himself, as that Adam’s Apple of his seemed to become as large as an orchard, “I know you’d be leaving your friends, your family, for so long a time…and…’ He didn’t get a chance to finish. ‘Oh don’t you know all I want right now is you? Don’t you know that, Joseph Andrew? I love you,’ and for the first time, I knew what that word “love”.