The clock ticks faithfully before me, measuring my ordeal, laughing at my original plan to spend just five minutes suspended. After about forty-five m...nutes I feel my arms finally give up. Like hitting the wall when you are running,my muscles have reached their limit and the fight is over. I can feel my muscles loosen against my will. The pain of fatigue quickly gives way to a more ominous burning, deep along my bones and in my joints, as my bodyweight is taken up by ligaments alone.An hour. You're with me now , so that makes me happy. I enjoyed hearing about the guy from the bar, as I think you could tell. I'm just glad it was me you chose to be with long term." "I love you too, and I think I got really lucky on the night that I met you." She kissed me. "Doesn't mean that you're not gonna tell me any more stories though, does it?" "Sad," she replied, smiling and shaking her head, "just sad." *** I sat in the restaurant eating my breakfast with a big smile on my face. "What. It was then that I knew where the expression ‘seeing stars’ had come from. Jeanie kissed me senseless. Her lips were ravenous as they attacked mine. She massaged my lips with hers until I opened up to give her access into my depths. Pushing her tongue through my open lips, she explored slowly, licked and sucked until she had stolen all my oxygen. Pulling away, we were both breathing hard. ‘Jeanie, you’re hurt right now, I don’t want to take advantage of you.’ I tried to rationalize with her,. I’m hopeful to find space in one of the empty townhouses when people start to move into the new homes on the core Circle or racetrack or whatever it is now.”Dave commented, “None of us wanted to push you, but next week is the general member meeting and we did need some indication about your intentions. I apologize for doing it in this somewhat public setting.”“Oh, I don’t mind. I love all these people and they love me; I know. There are no secrets here, at least not about stuff like this.”Dave.