She had her run of allthe exercise equipment. She decided to warm up on the elliptical.The rhythmic motion of the elliptical did nothing to calm Tomm....Instead, it seemed to heighten her agitation, as if each step was astomp on something that was bothering her. She was really making sureher steps had energy and force behind them."You're getting a little exuberant with the elliptical, aren't you?"The voice came from beside her, cheery and very familiar. Tommistopped, scowling, took two deep. He and my husband Jay would hang out and Jeff would try to see his ex. One weekend while he was in town they decided to go to a local club and have a few beers. I asked if I could go along. They quickly agreed. The club was busy with the early crowd when we got there so we sat a table and ordered beers. We were just hanging out drinking and rhe guys decided to play pool and I went with them to watch. They both think they are good so it was fun to listen to them talk trash as they played. Jay. But the feeling was brief and we'd finish jacking or sucking each other off. It was like we wanted to have sex – were horny and started the mechanics. Then we'd have this brief moment, in which we felt intimacy with each other, but it was fleeting and we'd resume our horny desires on a mechanical level again. The internal struggle seemed to never stop.So now we found ourselves in a hotel room. We had finally decided and planned it carefully. We both wanted to step across the line and have. ...............After a few months, Veronica decided to make the phone call she had dreaded ever since the bottom fell out in her life. She had been too ashamed to let her sister Emily know how down and out she was. They loved each other dearly and were the best of friends, but there was always a competitive edge to their relationship. Emie had bought a business outside Reno several years ago, turning it into a huge success. Ronnie could not bear the thought of telling her sister she had been.