" I didn't tell you to leave me all slimy. You should clean up after yourself." You two didn't..." No, Sara. I wanted to, but Mr. Romantic here wants ...t to be special." She came up behind me and put her arms around me."Yeah. I was thinking of the back seat of my car."That earned me a swat on the head. And then a kiss. She let me go and headed for the bathroom."So, Jack. Have you got something special planned for her birthday?" Oh, yeah." What are you going to do?" Uh, uh. I know how you guys. "Background time. I met Callista during the New York trip to visit a college friend. She was a friend of Olivia's who agreed to keep an eye on me--literally--during my visit to the Big Apple. After convincing myself that I wasn't imagining the person following me around, I decoyed her into a direct confrontation. She fessed up, and we've been friends ever since. Oh, and she was thirteen at the time, which would make her... fifteen?"How's your work going? Still playing around with bacteria and. "We ought to get up soon, Jessica will behere to pick us up in a bit." And because these sheets are soaked with sweat!" Kayla moans as sheunwraps herself from embrace and pads toward the shower. "Damnheat... Thought this was meant to be one of the colder states? Imean, it was always snowing on Fargo?" Well according to Danny, our resident geography expert, we'reactually further south than Milan," I say. "And you can't blame theweather for ALL of the sweat!" Hehe!" Kayla squeaks over the sound. Nothing severe ... but the shocks were becoming regular. Almost predictable. Harbingers of future events? Maybe or maybe not. It seemed like a good idea to keep moving. The voices in my head agreed ... keep moving.Getting the crew together, I put it to them.“I’m getting weird...” I started.“You can say that again,” from one of the girls. And everybody nodded.“As I was saying, I’m getting weird FEELINGS about the trip. You are college students. You should be learning to think. I want to put it.