Late Friday afternoon, Pete and Melanie picked me up, and we headed to Pete’s favorite diner by Eastgate Mall. I was really happy for Pete and Melan...e. Things were going well, and they were going to college together, just like I hoped Jennifer and I would be doing a year from now. Of course, we wouldn’t be engaged, but we’d take one step at a time.“How are you holding up?” Melanie asked.“Pretty well, actually. I’ve tried to put myself in the same mindset I had in Sweden. I’m not happy about. That was outside the norm for either of us. I had hoped the topic would be broached. I grabbed my pants and fished a small tube of personal lubricant out. The usual reason it was in my pocket was not up for discussion today. "This is lubricant. You can use lots of things with differing levels of effectiveness. But this is the best stuff in my book." Or a pocket?" Good Lindsey was loosening up emotionally. The next step would be physically. "We are going to take this slow." I was. “Drunk, stoned, whatever,” the female police officer said snidely, “it’s all the same to us.”“We tried to stop a friend of ours from being molested and we landed in jail,” Stacy shot back. “Maybe if the cops in this town weren’t such pieces of shit, you’d have two drunk frat boys here instead of us.”“Take it easy, Stacy,” Katelyn advised before turning to the police officer. “We’re neither drunk nor stoned. My mother is a police officer, too. We were at Hooligan’s Bar – drinking non-alcoholic. To get the floor manager’s attention she would have to scream out loud. That’s what she should do, she decided. She was going to scream, right now… …Except that now Jack was kissing his way down the front of her panties, even as his hands were drifting up the backs of her thighs… Ohhhhhh… Lin felt her mouth falling open in a mixture of sigh and groan, and instead of a scream what came from her mouth was a whispered, “No…” that even she could barely hear. Through half-closed eyes she saw that.