Who sent you? Do you have a message? Is Allen all right?" The sudden thought of harm raced through her mind."He's fine. Fine," Bob said reaching out a...d patting Gwen's leg. Sybil looked sharply at him and he retracted the lingering hand. Gwen appeared to pay no attention to the contact."But what about the message. You said a friend..." Yes." Sybil smiled, her sensuous red lips stretching into a thin smile. "A good friend of ours in the Army, George Hinman, just got back and mentioned your. .walk with me, I said no I want to watch the show, go alone. She said dressed like this with all these drunk guys? Aren't you afraid I'll get m*****ed? Damn it, she was right I said OK...them Tim said dude I'll go, stay and rock out. They left and since we where on the floor and all the pissers where on the main level it's a five minute walk just to get to the rest room. Shit I wasn't paying any attition, they came back and we had a big time. When the show was over every one was crowding the. I'm sorry Dr. Burnside ... but it was only five minutes, and I was comin' from another class." Cecilia ... two things. First, don't tell me you're sorry. If you were sorry you would've been here at 12:30 like I told you. What you're sorry about is that I'm pissed off." Yes Dr. Burnside." The second thing is that you come to me with an excuse, some bullshit about a class, even though your class ended at noon. Now, what do I say about excuses?" That 'excuses are like assholes, everybody has one,. I had gym my last class and it's clear across campus". "I can tell by your wet hair that you showered but, they end class soon enough for you to shower and you should have had plenty of time to make it across campus and be here at 3:00 pm."Sir, why do you have to be so hard on me, I'm doing my best, so I'm a little late It's not the end of the world". She stood in front of my desk hair still dripping and part of her blouse stuck to her young body because of the water she was not completely.