Inward and out she felt the smooth friction, rocking with each movement in rhythm with his. Forever or a moment, she had no concept of how long it had...been. An eternity of tension, released in a shudder of moments or hours, she had no idea what had happened within her being. The moment, or hours, passed into stupor, from which she rose again to shudder in pleasure. The fire within her ebbed and flowed, warming and cooling, rising and ebbing, filling her with sensations she knew nothing of. She. ”“If you’d stop dressing like a fifty-year-old accountant you might see what we’re talking about,” Rita said, passing Addie back her phone.I was used to this. Rita and Addie were my friends. They always felt obligated to compliment me, as if I was some sad little pathetic pariah that needed a confidence boost to find a boyfriend. They were both absolutely certain that I had a stick up my ass because I didn’t get laid often enough. They were right about the laid part, but I’ve always had a stick. ’ She started braking to let me out. ‘No don’t stop ma’am I don’t have to be there till September.’ I told her about my drive to leave my parents town and get out into the world and how this was my first summer of freedom, EVER!. ‘Well then young man you are definitely out there, I never even heard of Grinnell. By the way I am Lila, you are?’ She laughed easily as we talked. I’m Mike ma’am, nice to meet you.’ ‘Ok Mike nice to meet you as well however since I am only 31 years old you better. And, therefore, an important person in Wilkins. A fact that some of the unattached young ladies found interesting. Being employed and receiving a regular paycheck helped. But sometimes the job got to be a bit too much. Trying to explain to people the company rules about when he could work got to be downright tiresome.Unfortunately, there were no other telegraphers available. No senior telegrapher. No master telegrapher. Not even a messenger, the bottom end of the Western Union employment scale..