She gave them to me and then I told her my name. “How do you spell that?” she said, smiling that smile. It never seemed to leave her lips. I told ...er how I spelled it. “Ohhhhhh,” she said, still smiling. “Joseph, is that how you say it?” And then she spelled it out. She spelled it correctly. I smiled back at her as she smiled at me. We smiled and stared into one another’s eyes. I was quickly falling in love with this woman I’d just met. How or why I don’t know but I was. There was something in. Or sometimes I'd just sit there with my knees apart. I caught him looking several times, but he never made a pass. And then one time ... oh no, I can't tell you this. It's so embarrassing." Don't hold back now. Tell me! Tell me!"Maggie's face scrunched up and her lips pressed tightly together, straining to stay closed, but then she said, "Oh, I gotta tell you. One time after masturbating I was so wet I took my panties off and wiped myself with them. I bunched them up in my fist and went back to. No one blocked my wayand I was out in the hallway before I knew what washappening. I heard the music start up again as Istaggered away down the hall. I barely made it to my own apartment. Gasping for air,I stumbled into the bathroom and began to retch intothe toilet. Karen… **** Karen didn’t come home that night. Nor the next. Nor the next after that. The blinds were kept down at Talia’s apartment and Ididn’t have the guts to go over there and knock on thedoor. And so,. I had been fast enough to strip off the shorts, so that the bus had not fully passed before I was able to continue jogging again. I jogged a little faster than the bus was travelling, to ensure that all the kerbside passengers got a good view. Having become level with the front of the bus, I slowed a little for the return viewing. I could see that those passengers from the other side of the bus, were now standing in the aisle, looking over those on the kerbside of the bus. Almost everyone had.