”Coach looked to Patty, “So you’ve been working out to improve yourself in the off season?”Patty was standing under one of the basketball goal... off to the side of the court. She jumped up and touched the ten-foot rim. She spoke as she jumped, over and over touching the rim. “I owe it to myself, the school and my teammates to be my best. If I didn’t work on my weaknesses or refine my talents, then I’m just being lazy. I plan to win the national championship this year. I’ve been doing my part to. Was she really going to be at work, or was she going to see John? Julie got home late. I remember because it was during the Major League Baseball all-star game that year. She rushed around, took a shower and got in some tight blue jeans and sexy cowboy boots. I followed her around ignoring the baseball game. She told me John had called her back after she called me and suggested they have lunch together. She said "Let's make it dinner," and tonight was the night! I still remember the far away. . Just like you, I’ve noticed how… delicate the situation is there.Delicate is putting it lightly, we can’t get directly involved, we tried everything else, we've only got one option left.I know, despite our best efforts, this world cannot stand on its own, either we must introduce a new variable into it, or less we go to the Great Author and ask him to toss this aberration, and by extension the worlds that make it up, to the void of non-existence.That is not an option. Not yet, not until we. “This is, definitely and incontrovertibly, a second date.”“Good answer.” Her flat was nearer, and bigger, than mine. It was on the ground floor, like mine. We got through the street door, then the door to her apartment and that was when she kissed me for the first time. There was no hurry. We stood, and after a few false starts when she’d get really close to my mouth then ease back a fraction, our lips met, mine parted and we started a little tongue wrestling and touching each other; arms,.