However, she was unable to put her ruined panties back on. Mr. Hardown snatched the panties out of her hands. "Sorry, my dear," he said. "I'm going ...o be keeping these. You know me. I always need to have a souvenir after a night like this. But don't worry. I'll make sure you get a new pair soon." "That's fine with me," she answered. Jenna turned around and walked up the basement stairs. She winced with each step that she took. Mr. Hardown immediately noticed that she was limping. Yep. That. ’ He stated, leaning forward towards me, I thought for a split second that he was going to kiss me he was so close. My heart thumped, hard. He looked like he wanted to ask something else, but changed his mind and said, ‘What brings you down here?’ ‘It’s a very long story….’ I was cut off by two guys walking up and inquiring about renting some boards and asking about lessons etc. I finished my beer and looked at my watch. We had been lounging there talking for over an hour chatting easily. Very. ’ She hugged me close and whispered, ‘That would be wonderful.’ We slowly started back to the hotel, stopping for a couple of ‘dirty water dogs’ (hot dogs from a street vendor). There was a lecture that Carol wanted to go to at one o’clock and I wanted to attend one at two. So I went with her at one and she was sitting next to me at two. We spent the rest of the day talking to the people at the convention and symposium. We kept our distance while we talked to them. We told them about being in. "I'm mostly a beer drinker." You know, I always thought beer went well with pizza," Andy replied, "But that was before Hannah taught me that a little Italian red goes even better." It's not easy to find a pizza place that serves wine," Hannah said. "The barbarians. We'll have to show you some time, though." Yeah, there's this place not far from home that does," Andy said. "I've had better pizza, though. Still, someday we're bound to find a pizza joint that knows wine." I suppose," Hannah.