“Where’d you go?” I asked.“I couldn’t stay on the court with you, Tony.”“Why?”“You’ve always been intense, whether it was racquetb...ll or art or making love, dear. But I’ve never felt I was in danger. Now I do.”She walked away and left the club. I shoved my gear in my locker. Afraid of me? She was afraid of me? What have I become?I took off out of the club on a dead run. I ran for two hours, pushing as hard as I could along the shoreline, across the locks, uphill toward Wallingford, around Green. She looked at it. Everyone said purple was a good colour for her, and this set had three shades of violet shadow. She packed that in her suitcase before lugging it into the front room. Her brother was sprawled on the couch again. There was no protecting her pretty apartment from her him, and most likely some of his mates. ‘You won’t have anyone over will you, Graham?’ she asked pleadingly. ‘Please?’ ‘Probably just Arko and Chad for the game on your big-screen tomorrow night. But we’ll clean up,. When I got to thirty I opened my eyes. I would survive this flight.Thanks to the bourbon and the hectic schedule I'd been on for weeks, I fell asleep before the stewardess could serve the snack. When I woke up the plane was bouncing around pretty impressively and the guy in the seat next to me was grumbling. When the cobwebs cleared and I remembered where I was, I motioned to the first class stewardess."What's going on; where are we?" I looked at my watch; it was after seven in the evening. We. But those schools would have taken me away from Sharon.I scheduled my classes so I could be out by noon. I wanted to take mostly math and computer science classes. But to be out early, I wound up with a pretty weird mixture of classes that were available earlier in the day. Real estate, nursing...I didn't really know what the hell kind of degree I'd wind up with someday. But that didn't really matter to me. Not the way my sister matters.If I jogged the whole way home from NSCC, I could be.