"Why did you do that?" Pamela'd asked."Angique told me," she said, picking up her flip-flops and walking to the house.The house's pantry was stacked w...th anything they might need. There also was gas, electricity and fresh water. Atol was the ultimate desert island — quiet and isolated. It quickly reduced Pam's big city stress, as did Alicia's sweet attentions. Within hours happiness was a commodity; within a day she couldn't imagine having arrived only the day before."How did you meet Angique?". I finally started to relax back with the group. Yeah, there are about a dozen of us, moving in and out of our little clique, but even within that dozen, we don’t all have the same interactions with each other. Thea’s husband, Randy, is a UK football player, but he’s pretty much an end-of-the-bench guy. He stays on the team because he has his full-ride athletic scholarship, and, since he’s married, both Thea and he get free room-and-board in Cooperstown, the married-and-graduate student UK. I already had made contact with someone in New York City to make one of these boys into a nephew whose mother, my sister, had died not long ago. Making a forced pregnancy in war-torn Germany the boy’s background would stave off questions of paternity and circumstance.“As far as the decision of which one,” I said. “Perhaps another session.”“Certainly, which one?”“I think Gebhardt,” I said.“Excellent. I’ll have you taken back to room 5 and have Gebhardt sent back to you immediately.”“And then,. If I did, this would be easier. You were right; I changed my flight once I figured out that everyone else would be gone and that you would still be here. And I did it because I was thinking about sleeping with you. Well, that’s not quite accurate. I was obsessing about sleeping with you.”“Obsessing?” I asked.“For like the last two weeks, if I wasn’t studying or in class, it’s all I could think about. I don’t know why, either, and that bugs me. I started feeling jealous of Jackie and Elyse and,”.