"Oh I'm sorry Melissa, I didn't mean to bring up any bad memories for you."I reached down and squeezed her hand gently, but she smiled."No, no, you we...en't to know Madam, I think we all have memories though don't we?"She finished with my foot and placed it carefully to one side. My knees had to part slightly and I caught her glancing up between my thighs as she reached for the other foot. She looked up at me and smiled again."Was it that hot in the hall?"I blushed knowing she'd seen I wasn't. Hispowers made the rounds of the faculty, with each teacher wearing glovesand a jacket or long sleeve blouse or shirt whenever he was in the roomso they didn't have the chance to accidentally get close to him or givehim a chance to make contact. It helped that several of his classes werein cold classrooms making the sleeves needed and not too out of theordinary.School wasn't much of a help to temper Mathias' issues, he was so farinto his funk that he barely paid attention in class and was. One of her professors emailed her requesting a mandatory meeting to discuss her academics. Just the thought sent butterflies through her stomach. “I can’t, Fiona,” Lucy explained… “I have to meet with Dr. Thacker.” “Dr. Thacker?” Fiona interrupted with a puzzled look on her face. “Why would he want to see you?” “I’ve been struggling in my advanced media class and he wanted to see me. I think I may be in trouble.” Fiona looked at me for a moment and as she gathered her keys said. Sap poured from either of them in great sorrow as each watched the other being helplessly carried further away until a mighty divide rested between; surely this would be the end of their passion. Love has a strange way of never fading for some, and in all the eons that rushed by the two mighty oaks never stopped longing for one another, gazing across the great chasm in fond and agonized memory of how close they had once come. Countless small creatures resembling apes had come and gone in all.