But because she had done so well in the first two, the third was a virtual cakewalk. Kara met George in one of her classes during the first year. Duri...g the remainder of that year and the next, their relationship was mostly as study partners. It was not until the third year that they began to really have fun.Tonight, for the first time since her prelaw days, Kara was going out alone, actually with her friend Julie, but she didn't have a date and wasn't expecting to see anyone she knew. Choosing. Stretching out her nicely manicured hand she pulled the handle to the car door and climbed out. The lump in her throat rising as she got a clearer view of the house now that she wasn’t looking through the windshield of her vehicle, which embarrassingly had not seen the car wash in months. Maybe she should park it around the back? No point really. She was only here to cover for her friend, ‘Hey Jodi, listen, I know this is a big ask–‘ cough, cough, cough. ‘I am loaded with the flu, and I am. It was a weird feeling, good, though. I didn't think I would like it, but I kind of, well, like, felt secure in it. I mean, I was as good as naked, but it felt good, not naughty." Well, you certainly looked naughty. Lusciously, deliciously naughty," I joked.She giggled, then got serious again. It looked like that was the way the morning was going. "I don't think I'm ready for what you did to Mom," she said quietly."You don't know what I did, though, do you?" No, that's not what I mean. I meant. She swiftly entered her car, and through the open window handed me a hotel key."The Four Seasons, in half an hour," she said with a smile, and drove off.Half an hour later I gently unlocked her room and strode in. Laura stood up from her laptop. She was wearing a hotel bathrobe."Do you need to freshen up or something?" she asked."No, I'm fine," I said, suddenly feeling kind of uncertain at the imminence of what we were about to do."Well, let's get started," she replied, and with one fluid.