Why couldn’t she do the same also? Why couldn’t she make love to him? Because she loved him, and he didn’t love her. Not anymore. Heidi climbed...into the bed that they had once made love in. The night before things had gotten so messed up, when they were still happy together. Heidi couldn’t fall asleep for the longest time that night. She kept thinking about their marriage. How would she be able to survive it? Things couldn’t go on this way forever, could they? Jake would get tired of her. He. "What the hell was all that about?" Wataru wondered aloud, watching Ben Ofer shrug as little girl was running over to the just arrived woman, squealing with undisguised joy."YOKO!" The child shouted and leaped, her arms opened for her infamous 'hug attack'. Over where she was still standing framed by the lake, Ryoko looked confused perhaps a little embarrassed. More than anything however she was ticked off! About to toss some choice words Kiyone's direction when Mayuka's charge melted it all. As a young man, once all his teeth had been extracted, some smart arse apprentice he worked with had made a joke about the fact that he must’ve have had a pocket full of quarters as a result of this. As is always the case with these inane comments, that nickname stuck with him for the rest of his life.Quarters didn’t mind this name, because it always supplied him with a hilarious, or so he thought, story to tell after he introduced himself to another person when they came to know that he wore. "Jonathan stood and placed his book on a side table before heading out the room and upstairs, the first door he came to was his cousins. He knocked lightly and waited until she called out for him to enter. His cousin was standing by the bed wearing a white silk robe that offered him fleeting glimpses of her nubile body beneath."Hello Mary, I just thought I'd make sure you are alright and didn't need anything." I'm fine Johnny; I was just going to have a lie down and rest." I'll leave you in.