Getting up she stood at the window for a long time looking down at the dark garden, trying to hold her body still Jenee bite her lips remembering an o...d friend from home, he had found some mushroom growing out in the field, he picked them and taken them home and eaten them with his dinner, she recalled him saying it made him feel calm and happy, he began eating the mushrooms more and more often, then the cold season came and the mushrooms were gone. Jenee looked at her shaking hands, all she. If he didn't have her soon, he would explode.Still, she seemed more interested in the history lesson than in him, so he hesitated. He couldn't afford to rush her. The two of them joked and laughed together of course, but as the time ticked away, he saw no opening.If he was going to get into her pants tonight, he would have to work a little faster. He knew what he had to do."Lissa," he said, trying to sound a little nervous. "Can I ... can I ask you something?" Sure," she smiled."Well ... um .... Leaning forward, Ed replied, “Not really. I want to be on the board of directors.”Shocked at the audacity of the suggestion, the man sat back in his seat wondering what to do. The memo hadn’t covered this situation. There was only one thing that could be done and that was to call his boss at corporate headquarters. Standing, he said, “Excuse me for a moment.”The man stepped away from the table as he reached into his pocket and made a call on his cell phone. From across the room, Ed watched him. The pillow seemed to soak up the muffled sobs and wet tearslike an emotional sponge. Her head pounded terribly from an agonisingheadache due to all the crying.She didn't stop until she fell asleep.***Vrrrrrrrrrrr Vrrrrrrrrrrr Vrrrrrrrrrrr Vrrrrrrrrrrr VrrrrrrrrrrrVrrrrrrrrrrr Vrrrrrrrrrrr VrrrrrrrrrrrRachel's eyes slowly opened to the vibrating noise coming from herhandbag. It was her phone. She groaned as she slid over to the edge ofher mattress, reached down and rummaged for her phone in the.