It was not the largest office or even the second largest, but still, one fitting his new stature as a full partner in the firm. It was a status that w...s announced at the firm’s January partners’ meeting. He had managed to skip the designations of senior associate and junior partner because they wanted his now famous name on the office door. Various partners and associate attorneys were busy trading on his name to gather business to the firm. It is a fact of legal existence that while trials. An archway of tusks framed the center of it, acting as both a sun shade and a ceremonial cover. Several comely maidens stood around the proscenium like Swiss Guards, fanning the area with large palm fronds to help cool the participants. Chief!Kung was pontificating in a loud voice to his assembled masses, and when he spied us, motioned for Tess to approach. She went and stood next to him, shyly like a young maiden.!Kung went on and on with the aotropaism peculiar to this ritual, I suppose,. .you´ll be surprised when we get home.“I couldn´t put a finger on it but something was odd. For the time, I was just glad our fight was forgotten and that the shower was only a five minute walk away. When I grabbed my bags she stood nearby but made no effort to help me. I shrugged it off and we started walking. She put her arm around my waist while I was bragging about the time at camp and casually she let her arm move down - just to where she could give my buttock a firm squeeze. My first. They only had eyes for me, Sonja and her two friends, and I should have been happy, but I wasn't. They thought I was gay? That I'd come out of the closet and they were proud of me? Petra thought two guys kissing was ... Hot? The world was spinning out of control, it seemed to me, and as if to prove it I was suddenly engulfed by Dan's large shadow."Hey, Ashley," he practically sighed, leaning against the lockers, making me feel almost cornered."Are you crazy?" I couldn't help myself. "People.