“The thing is, I didn’t want to get married and he did. That’s why I went to a different college. And I met a lot of horny guys and decided that...since they didn’t know Craig, getting it on with them wouldn’t, you know, really be cheating.” Outside, the wind picked up. Inside only the crackling of the weather radio broke the silence until Jason spoke. “Okay, you’ve told me what happened. I figured it had to be something like that. But what I asked was why it happened.” “That’s kind of. You don't speak German, so you won't speak at all. Just wear a suit and tie. I shall introduce you as a controller from the Medical Board, USofA. Look threatening. A grey eminence. Walk around, touch things, show contempt. Make funny, meaningless noises, be a proper nuisance. Alfred will be the foreign expert. Also threatening but in a more subtle way. He will hint at dubious qualifications from questionable universities, simplistic perceptions coupled to outdated treatment methods and so on.. She took a deep breath and began to talk. She told me that she had realized how big of a fool she had been. She said that she had realized how much I had loved her and that I was the only thing she could think about. She explained that she had stopped calling because she had not wanted to admit that she loved me. She had tried to make things work with Keith, but every time he touched her that she could think of no one but me. She had thought cutting ties would help, but it only made things. I’ve never been a great fan of those places but there was no way that I was going to stand out on the street on my own, even in my aroused state, so in I went. The place wasn’t quite like the last one that I went into many years ago when my mum took me, then I was intimidated by the noise, the flashing lights and the young men acting like dick-heads. This time the place was smaller and seemed to be a lot quieter even though there were quite a few people in there. There was a group of teenage.