I said that's cool and took her by the hand and led her to the bed. I said she must get herself comfortable while I use the bathroom for the last time...before I go to bed. When I got in the bathroom I could already see that something was not right, yes something was definitely wrong, the toilet seat was up and I left it down the last time I used the toilet. This didn't make any sense, why did she put up the sit when she used the toilet. I needed to think and think fast. I thought about the funny. For a moment Chris envied the fish. One way or another its pain wasn’t going to last too much longer. His on the other hand was probably just starting. ‘No when you get off this fuckin’ boat.’ Mr. Carver snapped. ‘Well when I graduate I’ll already have a couple friends in the industry, there’s still a shortage of people who can write code. Most people starting off in the industry can make around sixty k and usually with pretty good benefits too.’ Chris started. ‘You mean on the computer? Like. .. 'pickle'," She said, looking at my hands, " I could help you drive home. How far is it from here?" Shit, real far. You waiting for the afternoon bus?" Yes, I think I'm finished seeing Georgia, it's not been very kind to me." She said, with a sad face."Why is that?" I got held up last week, the week before that someone took my sleeping bag," she paused to catch her breath, " shall I go on.?" You poor thing, you had anything to eat or drink?" I've been living on hand outs, mostly."I tried to. He'd been polite even though they didn't talk much then. Apparently, he'd asked Nicole about her later. Now here she was getting ready to go to dinner with him when she would prefer to curl up on the sofa reading a book.Her date wasn't too happy when she pleaded a headache and declined his offer of dancing. She didn't want to make things difficult for Nicole so she did as all good mothers do. Gabriela took the blame for the two of them not hitting it off. In the end, he was very understanding.