Little messages that would some day shout at Togiwara and Nogumi both.I had only been back in the workshop for an hour when the telecom sounded and it...was Blake. When I answered he asked me to come over to his place. He told me to bring both my best deck and gear for a run. He also said to be prepared to spend some time away from home but wouldn't say why just that it was important and that I shouldn't waste time."How am I supposed to get there in a hurry?" I asked. "You live in Renton and my. I guess you could say I had a short attention span.Speaking of which, Carol was starting to catch my attention more and more.Why, I don't know.Maybe it was a combination of things.First, she was different.Different to what I was used to. Soft and rounded, not lean and taut. Dark, not fair. Quiet and considerate, not showy or egocentric. Mature, but on some things quite naïve.Or was it just the close familiarity we now had at work, being on the same project for over two weeks with mostly. I loved that.When he first started rubbing my legs, he did it through my shorts, but after a bit, he grew bolder, and he started reaching his hand up my shorts to feel my smooth bare skin. He would do this when I was reading a book, or drawing, or while we ate together alone. I never stopped any of his advances, I would just smile at him. Frankly, I loved his touch. His huge warm hands felt so good rubbing and massaging my tiny legs and I always looked forward to his touch. He was always. Walking out into the bitter weather, wrapped up like she was on an escapade to the Antarctic, Katie hugged her scarf around her and set off to do something she had never done in her life. She was going to volunteer. Now, this wasn’t Katie’s forte, caring and everything, but it was for her mother and she decided she had better stop feeling so glum during a merry season and decided to try and make another life that tiny bit better, heck some of the people she’d help usually live on the streets.