I want to feel your body against mine in this graceful place for as long as we have today."I did as she asked and spooned her from behind while placin... gentle kisses on her shoulder and neck. We stayed like that for some time before she finally spoke again."This is going to be our place. Whenever we need to be calm and closer to each other and nature, we will come here and lie like this. Life will get difficult, as you've probably already have experienced. For my part, it's only gotten. .. perhaps. She shook herself. She couldn’t avoid the boy – young man – forever. If she wanted to ... and she didn’t ... she’d need to move away. She could. There was nothing tying her to the town. Except ... she thought of Esme, receptionist at the Health Club. Glad, of the Barge Tearooms. That librarian, what was her name? Dulcie, at the church. People who accepted her as she was, extended the hand of friendship. Would she find the same elsewhere?She showered – again – and dressed with care.. My contract with my previous employer terminated last Friday. I owed my loyalty to my previous employer until then, not to this company.’ ‘Well yes I really do know that. I’m and attorney, but most people don’t act with that level of commitment. Please answer me how could you remember my picture two months after glancing at my face only once?’ ‘Well during that glance I stood transfixed, believing I had glimpsed the most adorable female of our universe.’ She giggled and said god he was funny.. "Okay, but I'm only going to say this once, so listen carefully." All right," I replied."See," she said and her words took on a gentle slur from the booze she'd consumed. "You should know all this already, 'cause you was... oops, I'm slurring my words, I mean, you were there." What?" Thas' right. It was the other night and you was there," she said, pointing her drink at me." Oh, Maggie must've known I wanted her. But she never gave me the opportunity until then. I mean, she told me to play.