Her only issue was the spandex clad companion. He helped her out by emphatically telling her they had to be back or miss the afternoon ride. She shock...d both of us by telling him that as she would like to see more of the mountains, he should go make the ride and I would see that she would get back later tonight. The dust hung in the air from his vanishing SUV when ‘Tober looked me in the eye, batted her lashes and asked if she could help me get cleaned up. Ten years later her gaze is still. We talked about this and that for a few minutes. I was half turned towards her with my arm on the back of the seat. She sat close to me with her legs crossed and her hands hooked over her knee. As we talked I took hold of her left hand. She smiled at me and squeezed it down into her lap. We slowly finished our drinks as she caressed my hand in her lap and I toyed with her hair, rubbing it across her neck and shoulder. We stayed a little too long in the pub and when we arrived in the cinema it. "Thanks," I said, "for making me a woman!" We both smiled and I walked slowly out the door. As I shuffled down the hallway to leave, the man that collects the rent for the rooms came out of his cubical and shouted, "Hey you! Come in here. You took too long. You gotta pay extra." I went into his little cubical and he kept saying, "You stayed to long. You gotta a pay extra." I just gave all the rest of my money to the janitor for a tip for cleaning the room," I said."For cleaning the room! I bet!. Hey, Lance, look who’s here, Billy said to me in a low voice. Who? I asked, without looking up. Miranda, he replied and pointed her out. I looked up and saw her standing by the pool table with her lifelong friend, Raven Jenkins. Wow, Devon said. She really filled out, didn’t she? I couldn’t deny it. She was more beautiful than ever. Her blue eyes could make Satan fall in love with her. Her dark brown hair reached her lower back. The outfit that she wore left little to the imagination. She.