The 'something special' he had promised me would be such an occasion. I found it difficult to control my impatience, but I knew it would be a pleasure...worth waiting for.I started to wonder whether the incident which had me lying naked on his kitchen table while he handed an unexpected visitor some material on optical sensors hadn't been planned exactly that way.Roger would be capable of setting this up. He would let me believe that I was in danger of being discovered, because he knew that this. I proposed to take a break. Everyone agreed. I had propped the crutch on the wall behind my chair. No one except my boss had seen it yet. I reached out and took it. As I was rising on my feet, supporting on the crutch, my injured leg cramped. I let out a moan and slumped into the chair. My calf was hard as a stone and painful. The men gathered round me. ?Just a cramp,? I explained. One of them, a man in his forties came closer and kneeled down beside me. He took the high-heeled pump off. I really liked the new city and the new school.I removed a facial piercing and cut my earrings down to just one in each ear and started wearing a bit more colorful clothing. I felt that I was “fitting in” a lot better now and was able to converse and laugh with other boys and girls my own age. Everyone called me “Lucy” and they pretty much didn’t have any idea about the old time “Borgia’s.”One boy in my new school was called Tomas with the emphasis on the second syllable because he was mostly. And you helped bring him out. You did that, Meryn. For that I can never thank you enough.? Meryn blushed. She felt she was getting far too much credit. It had always been there in Jeremy, and a lot more was still there waiting to be drawn out. Yes, she was willing to admit that she had helped. She had been a catalyst. And then she suddenly understood something more. Jeremy had grown, had become so much more in the year that they had been together, but it had happened in large.