Once she was finished I handed her a towel and we wondered into the lounge to see how the others were doing. Dee was laughing at the dubbed voices of ...he A-Team characters and Nina was in the kitchen making us all a drink and singing along to the radio that was playing. As May dried off we drank the drinks that Nina had prepared. I am not 100% sure what they were, but all I do know is that they were strong, very strong. Like a quarter pint of Vodka with a double measure of cola for colour.. But lately that hadn’t been enough. She’d grown bored with the people she knew, bored with relationships, with sex. It had all become so predictable, so unsatisfying. She did not want the marriage proposals she was offered. She did not want the tedium of romance, the tender, considerate sex, the avowals of love. She did not want the roses; she wanted something more direct, more physical. She wanted the thorns.She stopped on a street corner illuminated by a dim yellow streetlight that barely. I think hewanted to get caught. We finished up and were in thebedroom when Jim and Cathy came in. Actually it was Jimcarrying Cathy in. Dave went out to help Jim get Cathyinto the bedroom. They carried her into the bedroom,and Dave left Jim to play with her.Wednesday morning we planned to have a big breakfast atthe cabin before doing more cross-country skiing. Cathyand I made pancakes and eggs and toast for the boys.When the boys got up and into the kitchen they did notsay a word to us. They. I walked in to the apartment I shared with another girl named Lucy. It was late Friday night. I had been in the library, preparing for my exams on the next Monday. The living room was in a small light on because that the TV was on, but there was no Lucy to be found. I figured that she had gone out and simply forgot to turn the TV off. I walked back toward my room, which was next to Lucy’s. The light was on in both of our rooms and Lucy’s door was open. I peeked in and was shocked at what I.