I’d have to take Xanax, every night, otherwise I couldn’t sleep a wink.It wasn’t only me. Marco, the others, they’d been looking rough as well... their complexions sallow...I was starting to believe the school itself to be a ghost or maybe a vampire that was sucking away our collective life force, cruelly drinking away our vitality and sleep...Marco told me after breakfast that the lecture stage in his classroom collapsed as he and two of his students stood on it. Luckily, besides a couple bumps. They offered a huge salary and bonus arrangement for Joe to spend a year abroad. The only catch was that I could not go with him. We discussed it and decided that it was too good an offer to pass up. This contract would set us up with a huge down payment and we would finally be able to move to that house in the suburbs. We agreed that a year apart was a big price to pay, but that it would all be worth it in the end. There wasn’t much time to make the arrangements and much too soon I found. "Terry beckoned Anh and showed her the guest-room, which looked out over the river, the Great Ouse. Not that she could see very much in the winter gloom. He showed her the bathroom with connecting doors to the guest-room and his old bedroom."Just slip the catch," he smiled, "so I don't walk in on you."She looked up at him, reached out and took his hand. "Why would you think I'd mind if you did?"He coloured with embarrassment."I am sorry, Terry," she said seriously, "I did not wish to embarrass. She broke away from her son and turned around. She hoped keeping him out of sight would allow her intellect to prevail. "Jeffrey, son, please don't do this to me. I am your mother for Christ's sake. I gave birth to you. Don't make me do this again."Jeff came up to his mother from behind. He wrapped his arms around her waist and hugged her tightly. His erection prodded her ass as he whispered in her ear, "I'm not making you do anything, Mom. Everything that happens from this point on will be 100.