She immediately began oohing and ahhing herself.“Make way!” sounded from the bottom of the stairs. Marilyn came up carrying Charlie in his car sea.... Samantha immediately moved through the press of people, and they figured out how to secure him on one of the seats. Marilyn told me I was being evicted from my seat for our son, and she would sit across the aisle from him, so that he could see her during the flight. It was a short flight, barely an hour, but better to see Mommy than spend the time. I was torn between telling her that I was really actually dumb and that I just spent time with her just to ogle at her. My heart raced. I could feel my body heating up from the nervousness and indecision. After a full minute had passed, I anxiously told her the truth. I looked up and saw her smiling brilliantly, clearly enjoying my response. “I thought you would say something like that”, she giggled. I was overcome with shock. “I know you’ve been getting good peeks at me when I tutor you. I. Then, it started. I learned that the preliminary report was shared with a range of people and I was now moving from individual to individual to small groups. They all asked questions and recorded my responses. Many of the questions were similar or the same. I relaxed as Sam suggested. I went with it, answering the same question or variant of the same question as best I could each time. Every once in a while, I realized that something new had come to my mind in response to the now familiar. Or as the Italians would say 'coglierei le stelle dai cieli per voi' - I would pluck the stars from the sky for you." You kiss me so gently and I smell your perfume. "Commando," you whisper and lean back in your chair with a very wicked grin on your face. "This is going to be so good," I think to myself. I nod to the matre de and he leaves us on the errand I had previously arranged. A waiter, neat and proper in his pure white apron, serves us Montalcino in large crystal glasses and sit.