I missed Johnny until I met you."Joanie was disappointed that Stan wanted to just be friends, but it was more than she expected. "I would like very m...ch to remain your friend. I enjoyed our study times. Besides," she said with a slight smile, "if we stopped studying, you would fail your classes and then have to sit out another semester." Heaven forbid! We can't have that. Listen, would you like to go out to dinner with me tonight? There is a dinner cruise on the lake and the food is. In the evenings after our dinner Parvathi used to clean the dishes and go to her room. We usually used to chat for a while on different topics and afterwards retire to our respective rooms and spend rest of the time watching TV or reading. But that night after coming to my room I switched off the lights and laid on my bed. After an hour somebody knocked on my door but I didn’t respond and after few minutes another knock but still I didn’t respond. Half an hour later I slowly got up and stepped. ” He heard her say from behind him.He spun in place, his face red. She did it again, read his mind.“It seems ... spartan. It’s not you, not a home, really, more of a rest stop, isn’t it?” He said, his eyes sweeping the apartment again.“Exactly,” she sighed. “I’m gone so much...” she left the rest unsaid, sure he already knew.Doug had the almost overwhelming urge to ask her if she would move in with him, let him give her a place, a home to look forward to seeing. He knew it was too soon, too. I held the belief that he simply needed attention and that his plan was backfiring rapidly.Valentine's day was quickly approaching and was a day that we had gotten together as couples for the last 5 years after a huge incident where Randy bought an unwanted gift for his wife and I was made to help him replace it with a better one.Randy and I would shop together then exchange gifts with our wives and go out to dinner then top it off by taking the ladies to the beach to watch the sunset.Even with.