The others were more boisterous, jostling and nudging each other. Seeing their youthfulness, he tried to remember his childhood. He had been a rather ...ickly boy – one of seven children of a miller. He was not the eldest or the youngest, but as usual, somewhere in the middle. The Hills were not well-off and so every benefit was a veritable blessing. When he went to school it was never he who put his hand up to answer questions or help the teachers and they reciprocated by ignoring him and never. In any case, this was going to take some real getting used to.'Damn, this is going to take some getting used to, ' I thought.She grinned, and then my mind was filled with the mental image of the two of us in a zero 'g' suite of rooms.I was shown to a monitoring room and left to use the AI computer system. My task was simple. Pick my new ship and outfit it as I wished. I had a base allowance for this new craft, which was provided by the Federation as a grant. I was, of course, free to spend as. "Better fucking be worth it." I spent the next 10 minutes throwing peanuts at him while he refused to talk to me.Soon the familiar sounds of the front door opening followed by the thud of a heavy backpack being dropped were heard. "Finally." "Oh, we talking now?" I said, still grinning. The douche had no idea what sort of awesome news I was about to give him. If he did he would be on his knees sucking me off in thanks instead of being a jackass. The quick thud thud thud of someone running up. I moped around my apartment for most of the day, in a funk. Finally, around 4:00, I headed out to do some errands I'd been postponing for most of the day.After getting my car washed, dropping off some dry cleaning, and stopping at Home Depot, Target, and Best Buy, I was headed back towards home past the Perimeter Mall.Just around the corner from Laurie's apartment.Not sure why, I made the left turn to cut through the mall parking lot, and a few minutes later, I was at the entrance to Meadowview.