He stared at the remaining portion, ashamed of his cowardice as the naked skull smirked back in his face. Thirty-four years of the same treatment Lill... now faced, had made Ben moldable to his mother’s demands. It was as though the minute he crossed his parent’s threshold, his spine was jerked out of his back and locked deep away in some hidden box to which, only ‘they’ owned the key. In Houston, where he’d made a name for himself, Ben’s enemies would cross to the other side of the street seeing. Our conversations were always brief, but playful and flirtatious. I worried she was too young, that I was old enough to know better, but I never stopped, and eventually I learned she was 18, almost 19. Each visit ratcheted up the tension between us, and the banter went from playful to aggressive, and that spark grew to a smoldering fire. Then, after three months and a week, she was gone.I asked the supervisor and learned she had quit as she was graduating soon and moving on to college. The pang. There was a sign on the door that read "Out of Order", and she slipped inside. "Thank you, God!" Clifford breathed, and he grabbed his bag and eagerly followed her across and inside the restroom.She was waiting for him, pulling one dress strap down her creamy shoulder. Clifford dropped his bag and glanced at the stalls. "Are we alone?" he asked.The blond woman stepped up to him, roughly grabbed his shirt, and pulled him to her, mashing her full breasts into his chest. "I put the sign up an hour. ”I nodded, “Oh that. Well, yeah, I can understand.”“Don’t take this the wrong way, but how does a computer nerd end up with all those model-quality girls?”“By being nice to them and never, ever taking them for granted. By not looking at them as pieces of meat or conquests. By caring for them and loving them, no matter what happens.”“Which explains why Jessica is interested in you.”“She’s talked to you about me?”“I’m her mentor. She talks to me about pretty much everything and anything.”“Sounds.