I told her I would come back later and she said I could start on her room right away as she was just on her way out. I didn’t refuse of course but I...started in the bedroom as she was in the bathroom putting on her makeup. I could hear her heels tapping against the tiles as she moved around and even that sounded sexy. I looked in the rubbish bin first and unfortunately didn’t see anything like the day before. I commented on how nice she looked and she popped her head out of the bathroom and said. She could hold on to partsof it for a little while longer, but the ultimate loss of that part ofher life was inevitable. That thought seemed to go to the heart of some of the largely forgottendreams, as well. As little as a few weeks earlier, she could never haveimagined the things she had seen and done lately. Some of them were good,like her friendship with the little sick girl and her new, older friends.Some was terrible, like the horrific events in the basement. And a lotwere just ucky, like. All of a sudden, I hear a growl behind me and find myself being tackled into the water. I fight back, laughing and struggling to dunk him, but he's so damn strong. He grabs hold of my wrists and holds them above my head. "You gotta say mercy," he says. Our faces are barely an inch apart, and I can smell the cinnamon gum on his breath mixing with my coconut shampoo and chlorine. I look into his eyes, both of us breathing hard, and glance at his lips for a second. "No," I gasp, and he leans in. When I found out they were shooting a movie around the same time as the Olympics, I brainstormed that I could get in to see my sister compete in the 1500 meter speedskate.Working sunup to sunset, during the shoot, I found myself unable to get away.But weekends, when actors demanded their time off, especially during the Olympics that they also wanted to see, was an entirely different story.I met up with Trudy at the practice rink on a Saturday at 6AM, along with three other medal hopefuls, and.