We had passed many similar climbs that I would have liked to have attempted, but Melissa kept pressing onwards, literally to the point where the path ...an out and we were faced with a twenty-foot drop onto the upper reaches of the trees below.“This will do,” she announced.I looked up at the rock face then I looked at her.“Why this one?” I asked.Melissa just grinned, occasionally glancing at me slyly out of the corner of her eye. She started removing her rucksack and readying the rope; removing. A hardness was growing underneath her, a promise of worse to come.The transport glided to a stop, and announced their destination. The door opened.Zack shoved her off him, stood up unsteadily.Renee had just regained her feet, when she was jerked out of the vehicle by her collar.He stood above her, the hunger on his face lit by the cab's interior. One hand was already pushing his pants down.She crossed her legs instinctively, raised one warding hand, said the first thing that came to mind."Zack-. I assume that there will be a next time?”“Oh yes! Absolutely!” she gushed.“Good. Sweetheart, please remember one thing — I love you and I’ll always love you. You call me whenever you need something and I’ll be there. No matter what. No matter when.”“I love you, Steve. Thank you. For everything. Let’s go back to Kathy.”“You bet!”We walked hand-in-hand back to Witte Hall and then went up to Bethany’s room with Kathy. About twenty minutes later, Gene came into the room and he and Bethany sat on. And face it he did, that afternoon on the rock. ‘It’s been almost five years since I received that card, there hasn’t been another word from her. I only know what’s happened in her life through the local paper and the tabloids. ‘She is still big news for the town paper. They didn’t print the dirt, that’s what tabloids do.’ The paper covered the news about all her big shows, concerts, awards, and her successful records. ‘Yeah… her successful songs and albums… there have been so many, I lost.