It was just like you said it would be. After I cooled down, I realized that probably nothing had happened with you and ... Carla." But you left town a...yway." Yep." And you've refused to talk to me for almost two weeks." I just decided this wasn't going to work, Travis. I threw you out in Toronto because you'd cheated on me, but when I checked out a few hours later and came home, it was because I knew this thing with you wasn't going to work." That's crazy. We were going great!" But it was like. At my suggestion, he was even thinking of opening another across town. I was even going to invest and be a minority partner. Last week Roy came over and sat in my office with me discussing our future business venture. Our main concern was a reliable manager. He put forth the name, Kevin, a guy we’d went to high school with. Kevin had also gotten his degree from the same college Roy had. We’d been discussing a new store for almost a year while I’d been crunching the numbers and evaluating. The city's buildings thinned and the crowds were behind me.Exhaustion arose within me to compete with my sense of terror. I had tostop before long. I came to a lone farmhouse, and whirled into itspartially hidden doorway, stood and panted, noting with horror the riseand fall of the alien, full-breasted chest inside which my heart waspounding. I'm panicked! I can't allow myself to panic. I'm a warrior,damnit! I should know better.Gradually my heartbeat and breathing slowed. Cautiously peeking. She truly fell in love again – with her son.When Ava asked him about the girls in high school, he shrugged. “The ones I know are all ... flighty. They’re mostly giggly airheads. I know I should pay attention to one or two of them in a special way, but they make it hard to maintain interest over more than one lunch.” Thus, at school, Doug became everyone’s friend and no girl’s special friend.After nearly two years of conjugal living, the couple decided to take a small camping vacation over a.