Not there yet. Every night it hurt just to lie in bed. In the morning I had to roll out of bed and pull myself up on the dresser. It seemed like it wa... ten miles from my bed to the bathroom. By the time that the first game was played I felt like I could whip a pack of tigers with ten lions thrown in for good measure. The first hit that I took in that game knocked half of that confidence out of me. We won the first game and all but one after that.The first year went by fast. Between football,. Clothing flapped on the dryer that slowly spun, looking like an old fashion moving picture show, flashing images of gradual motion, created from overlaid drawings, viewed through a small slot on a spinning disc.The two apple trees that framed the garden path were bearing green, unripe apples that would eventually swell, redden and sweeten.Jake stood, taking in the view, still several hundred yards away. His steel grey eyes travelled over the scene, drinking in the vista from his vantage point. I leaned forward and sucked her tee shirt clad right nipple into my mouth. Clamping her hands around my head, holding me to her, she moaned, “Oh yes! Good is better than right! But, don’t you want to taste the real thing?”I looked up at her. Her sweet innocent looking face had triumph written all over it as she skinned the shirt off, and offered herself to me again.Wordlessly I enveloped the puffy nipple with my lips, gently sucking, swirling my tongue all around the stiffening bud.“Oh fuck!. ‭"No," she shook her head sadly, "Only this morning and suddenly you changed." Will you come for a drive with me so I can explain‭?" ‬I asked hopefully.‭"Yes," she agreed without a further thought, "In fact you can run me back to my rooms, if you give me ten minutes, Coffee?" she asked.‭ I shook my head, "No, but thanks." I won't be long.‭" ‬she said,‭ ‬and then she shouted‭ "‬Mommy,‭ ‬my Taxi‭' ‬s here,‭ ‬see you later‭!"She smiled,‭ "‬Let's go‭!"I.