" What? 'Okay'? You don't get it, do you?" I smiled at her. "I'm ready for us now. I know I'm ready. There's nothing you can say to me that will chang... that. I want you, and I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get you back. I'm pretty sure you already want to get back together with me, so the hard part's out of the way. Now it's just a matter of waiting until you're ready, and doing whatever I can to help that process along."Dawn glanced at me and chuckled. "Yeah, I guess it's easy for you. Several turned into consulting business. Fall term. It was time for the colleges fall terms. Ann received her dorm room assignment. Just before she had to move in we were visited by Mary and Barbara and also by Connie and her parents. Barbara and Connie were going to the same school and would be living in the same dorm but had decided not to be roomettes. Barbara had the family Mercedes loaded to the gunnels with ‘stuff’ for college. Connie’s parents had a minivan. Connie had it well loaded. Quickly looking up at her face i could see the most amazing blue eyes and bright red lipstick,the fake freckles on her face and the way she had her hair in pigtails but was clearly to old to be in school confused me.I awkwardly smiled at her trying not to look like a pervert.She responded with a huge grin and said "hi im sarah would you like to donate to c***dren in need" and thrust a collection box at me.this allowed her blazer to fall open and my eyes quickly darted to her exposed. Cliffy set them up before he died."Lindsay nods. "I wish he could have been here to see them. He was good to a lot of musicians." Truly a patron saint of the blues." Yeah," she agrees. "And so many didn't even know who he was until after his death." That's true of a lot of folk who help stars shine," I say."People approach to look at the stars, and rarely they regard their supporting players." But the supporting players are always there." Yeah."We stare at each other for a moment, then look.