But I don’t want you to…I…I…’ She struggled to turn her feelings into words and held his hand to her lips. ‘Eileen.’ ‘What?’ ‘I...love you too.’ He glanced over at her. ‘I fell in love with you before you got off the train in La Crosse.’ Her eyes welled up again as her emotions overwhelmed her and she wiped at them with her fingers. ‘I hope those are tears of joy,’ he said anxiously. ‘More than you know,’ came her choked reply. ‘More than you know.’ ********************************** They. ..John did not sleep well that Sunday, he had a nightmare where he and Lisawere dressed up to go to a party with two boys, that disturbed the wholenight. He woke up feeling really sick and went to school against theirwill for the first time in a long time he wanted to stay away from thatplace.Upon entering the building he was greeted like every day, manycompliments, looks, autograph requests, but not that animated it, quitethe contrary, only made him even more aware of their fate._ Hello,. "You fucked her," Katy said, to take the edge off what she had done, I believed. "I know you. You might not have been able to get a hard-on at first, but you'd be persistent. You wouldn't stop trying until you gave Melody what she wanted. That's one of the reasons I love you so, Derrick. You'd never leave a woman unfulfilled. It isn't in your nature. You fucked her. I know you did." And I know you fucked Bill, too. You couldn't resist his long cock, could you? You had to put it in you to see. So it was official, now. Beat the Goddamned Yankees or forget about it.The regular season's too long. The players can't sustain their emotional highs for 162 games. There aren't enough breathing spaces. Not enough days off. Not enough family time.I was fresher than most. Maybe because I was the only Oriole whose bed partner was with him, at home and on the road. Anybody else who was getting laid on road trips was either a Lothario picking up groupies, or a wife-cheating womanizer, or else he.