"Here, this should help you relax. I don't want you to fear me, my darling, I want you to enjoy my company."Ann ignored him. She could not bring herse...f to talk to him. She was still afraid she might lose control of herself and say or do something that would spoil it all and she would never get the pictures back. She drank deeply, the alcohol burning into her throat like fire--but doing its job; providing her the oblivion she desired and she could feel its nerve-calming affect seeping deeper. "Well you remember my buddy Jimmy. He is over there with those two beautiful ladies. Anyway he was at a big stag party in Detroit a month ago, and won one of the major prizes.It was a prize for two guys for the New Years Eve party at the MGM Grand casino in Detroit. It included rooms, admission to the party, escort dates for the party, and some spending cash. So Jimmy invited me to come along. We both have two beautiful dates for the night."Just then the band started up with a slow song.I. I have a good job at Gilbert Pneumatics filling out pick lists for custom air processing equipment. The girls who work with me enjoy pumping me for all the juicy details about my dates or interviews, as they called them. Shirley, who works in the personnel office, always gives me the heads up on new hires in the company so I can check them out. This week there was a new draftsman in the second floor design office. This was also the start of a new chapter in my search for the perfect man. After. . rejection. But there wasn’t anything she could do. She tried to talk to him. She told him to stay after class one day.“Bobby,” she said, her voice pleading.He faced away from her.“Bobby, please. We need to talk about this.”He looked at his watch.“I need to get to my next class,” he said, to his watch.She sighed.“Go,” she said.He left.She understood that he was angry and frustrated, and it had to have come from their momentary loss of control. But surely he saw the dangers of continuing that.