Penny joined us for dinner, and with Alice’s blessing, hung out with us until she had to go home at 9:00pm. Once again she kissed me on the cheek as...she left. The pang of loss was still there, but it seemed to diminish a bit each day, and I was sure that eventually it would go away.Bethany joined me in bed that evening, as she had each night since she’d come back from Ohio.“How was your first day of class?” I asked.“Just the introduction and syllabus, and a short lecture. It’s going to be a. I was stroking him, when we both thought we heard something. We froze and it wasn’t just our imagination. We could hear the voices more clearly. A man and a woman. I took my hand out of his jeans and we returned to our hike. Sure enough, around a couple of corners we found them. A husband and wife, sitting on a long and sharing snacks. The way the husband looked at me, said that he wanted to fuck me. The way the wife looked at me, said that she knew where my hands had been. Thom and I made. I gripped Mom’s buns as we screwed as vigorously as I dared, always keeping my ear out for her lungs. I didn’t want her to die in the middle of the act, that much was sure. Granted, she wasn’t as frail as she might have been on chemo or radiation, but she was literally dying. She had a terminal cancer and it was in her lungs, after all. It would be too easy to push things too far and cause her to asphyxiate.I softly, slowly humped Mom, treading that line rather carefully between too gentle and. Checking the Dictaphone, she realised that there was no tape inside. She dropped face first on her desk. ‘Oh-My-God… Julian is going to shoot me’ Not only was that briefing important, no, she was also supposed to ‘incorporate the new economical features’ in her next research article, which was… oops….due on Monday and today was …oooops….Friday. Swear words of various strength came to her mind. After trying unsuccessfully to get hold of some of her other colleagues who had been attending the.