“But I also learned something else today.I looked up at him from his side and asked, “What was that John?”“I may have lost on the field today ...ut just having you with me now is a win in my book.” “Oh and hey your dad told me about you and this victory party let’s save that for next weekend.” John said as I laced my arm through his.I just laid my head into his good arm as I felt his head lay against mine. I closed my eyes thinking what a good man he was and what a good man my dad was as well. We. There was a chamber pot under the high bed, which stood tall on four great wooden legs. "Well," said Elspeth, "I'll say goodnight. See you in the morning. Bolt the door when I've left."Gwenneth glanced at the door, with its black iron bolt, and thought that really wouldn't be necessary. You don't find burglars or ax murderers in Wales, and she had nothing to fear from Elspeth. She took off her damp clothing, hanging her anorak, her jeans, and her flannel shirt on pegs in the roof beams, then. I simply said "forever." We got off the phone a few minutes later. Both of us, I think, were feeling immeasurably better about ourselves and where our paths had led us.I picked Sherrie up for several of what we had decided were official dates at her apartment, but I never saw the inside of it. She would tell me her two roommates had trashed the living room or some other excuse. I told her I'd like to meet her roommates and she said I would soon. She was concealing something, but I didn't get. The nipples themselves, remained lodged in a crease of the fabric, which gallantly fought to retain her treasures as it rode up and down with the movement of her breasts.I leaned down to kiss her again and this time her head came up to meet me, her hands going to the back of my neck and then my shoulders as our tongues became snakes in a battle for ascendancy.I changed my moves then, sliding both hands straight up the middle in that barest of gaps we maintained between our bodies. Up to those.