"Don't you have a counsellor, anyway?" Neil asks."Yeah," I sigh. "I saw her on Monday, she gave me a few copingtechniques... Didn't work. Just the sig...t of my parents' faces makes mewant to scream." Well like I said," Neil says, "save that aggression for the Borg. Orthe bags, every Tuesday." Or the bog, if you're stomach's upset," Simon says, leading to anawkward silence. "What? I thought it was funny..." What I was trying to say," Rob says firmly, "is that we're not good atthe whole 'emotion'. .. that's when he decided that he wanted to retire."Jenny smiled that smile. The one that told me she had finally put two and two together. "I guess your parents are rich, aren't they?" I wish they weren't. I don't want to be treated differently because of that. It doesn't change anything with you, Jenny. Does it?"That starry eyed smile of hers was really starting to worry me. "No, it doesn't. But it explains a few things. Like how your parents could possibly afford that house overlooking the. I am very open that i am gay Ruth ask if i had a partner i said no, and not really looking i am quite happy at the moment. so at about 4pm with only an hour of the day to go i went over to Ruth to say you can go home early as its your first day, and that she had done really well. i was just heading out the door for a ciggy and she walked with me till we go outside i said ill see you tomorrow and was about to walk around the back and she said ill have one with you before i go.when we were out. I love you with all my will." I extended my hand, touching her peachy skin as lightly as I could, feeling the warmth and electric charge that nothing else in the world possessed. "Why won't you believe me?" You are fooling yourself." I was shaking now, my legs refusing to be still; I forced them to, as much as I could, hoping that Vivian would not notice my nervousness. I almost backed up then; but something in me—either the desire, or the fear of losing her, or maybe just a senseless attempt.