Then she took me to meet the Athletic Director.I was a little concerned with how he would react to me, since Coach had chosen to offer me the full sch...larship over the girl with the wealthy family, but he was very welcoming, and told me how Coach had convinced him that I was the most worthy candidate for a full ride to State. After our meeting with the AD, Coach told me that the way she convinced him they could offer me a scholarship was to use part of the endowment they were going receive. Ayame mentioned to Cynthia that she had seen Tom pass her Civics classroom as she was leaving it and had waved to her; he was walking with a group of guys and they were talking animatedly.At gym, Roger went to the pool to get some work in on his fly stroke. The coach had recommended an adjustment in Roger's technique that he thought might give him a tiny speed improvement and Roger was keen to practice it so that it would feel more natural.It was during lunch period that it happened. After they. I was watching breakfast tv and toasting a couple of bagels when I heard Maria's soft footfall on the kitchen tiles. As I turned, she flashed me an apologetic smile, not to mention a fair amount of cleavage from the gap in her dressing gown. She's your cousin, you idiot, I thought and quickly retargeted my eyeline at the toaster.Four steps later, Maria was at my side, her head resting against my right shoulder and her left arm snaked around my waist. "Matthew, thanks for being so kind to me. " She looked up at me again, but this time I just nodded."Well, what it all boils down to is that I promised my mother that I would never have sexual intercourse with anyone, let alone Gordon, until I was twenty-one, and I had finished my education. Unless I had gotten married in the mean time, that is."That struck a cord with me. It had been the night of Sue's twenty-first birthday party that she'd dragged me back to her flat and almost raped me. She had however, not completed her education at.