. and yetthey were involving him. Offloading on to him some of theresponsibility. Making him an active participant, sloughing offonto him some of the ...uilt, however small. Some otherman-to-be-girl would have to live with a daily, an hourly, reminderof his decision for the rest of their ...." Come Sophie dear," her voice cut across his thoughts. "What do yousuggest? Poor Olive should have chosen a name for you of course,but as the circumstances ....." She hesitated, ".... As that wasnot. I wasn't sure I wanted anybody to see me like this, but I am glad you came. Martin, you really didn't mind kissing me?" Linda, you are a very pretty girl, and my friend. You recall I asked you out before Pamela, a fact she never lets me forget," I added, as Pamela mock-swiped at me."You are bruised, but bruises don't change you. If we had ended up dating, and I had bruised my face, would you have gone 'yuck' and avoided me?" No, of course not, but I don't mean just the bruises." Yeah, Linda, I. This wasn't unusual as our offices are on the edge of an office/industrial park and starting about 5:15 any evening there is no traffic anywhere in the park, so a lot of people run and jog around the complex after work.They looked a little familiar but were too far away for me to be sure. One was obviously middle-aged, and the other one was younger. There was nothing remarkable about them though and I returned to speculating and fantasizing about what my wife and I might do this evening to. While bringing them home in Greg's black lifted truck, the phone rang and it was Jill, the twin he was taking, on the caller ID. When he answered, she was apologetic but told him that her grandfather had a heart attack and they had to fly to see him. Neither girl could go to the Prom but she apologized several times and told Greg to let Ben know. After he explained what happened, Greg looked at Ben, "Well, I guess we aren't going to the Prom after all. Fuck it, we'll go fishing instead." The.