I lie on my bed wondering when Clarisse will come. My naked body is ablaze with the need for her presence, but I am alone. Then I hear it. Faint moti...n in the darkened room. The rustling noise of clothes sliding off a body. The bed shifting and creaking a little. Something in my nether regions stirs in response, knowing that my lover has arrived. A hand caresses my naked chest. Fingers run through my curly chest hair before gently rubbing my nipples. They harden in response. Little tingles. Perhaps he had sensed deep down this day would come and none of the ladies he met in the city would ever consider accompanying him on the one-way trip he was taking now. Cows – oooh, smelly. Where can I get my latté? What do you mean there are no boutiques? He could just hear it now, his most recent fling would be despondent within an hour without her lifestyle cues. As he drove, he thought about life in the country and the kids he grew up with. After eight years, would anyone he knew still be. I'd met Eva's younger brother Manfred and I'd managed to get him a job on our building gang as a tea boy and general labourer, he still did a bit of black market wheeling and dealing, but mostly he was kept busy working and he was getting a regular wage.Eva proved invaluable, not just as an interpretor, but also as a go between whenever disputes arose and there were plenty of those!We'd taken her friend Anna on as an assistant to the C.O. but as the defeated German troops returned to what was. “First we figure out if it’s worth anything. If you gave us fifty percent and had no revenue, that would be the same as us doing it for nothing. So, we figure we’re just volunteers as far as getting things launched. Jacob already put together a preliminary business plan last year. We’ll work with that as a basis and refine it before we formalize,” Livy said. “I’m taking that class this semester and it’s really good.”I had the music in my head and I ran. The guys on the team were beginning to.