It was barely ten o’clock.“Amen, let’s get to it. You wanna grab Paul from his place? I called him a little bit ago but he didn’t answer. Prob...bly still asleep.”“Yeah, yeah, I’ll wake the young master from his slumbers. Meet you at the spot in an hour? I gotta eat something first.”“Sounds like a plan.”I ate quickly, cold cereal and an orange. A “nature walk” was our particular code for smoking dope and listening to the radio down by the local train tracks, sometimes for hours. It was simple. She was disappointed to see that the bulge in John’s shorts had not grown. Motherfuck you, she raged in her mind. It turns me on, so fuck you!John beckoned Jamie to come closer. As she moved toward him, he again thought he saw movement in the trees. He felt a stirring in his shorts. There was someone in the trees. Someone was watching Jamie. “Say what you did!”“John, please, are we going to cover that ground again?” Jamie’s arms fell to her side. The dull ache in her pussy throbbed. I thought. I found a job in a small office as a file clerk. Mom would drive me towork, dad would bring me home. After the first week I started tounderstand why women liked pants rather than skirts. It was a lot morecomfortable, but I stayed in skirts because mom said I had to get used tothem. By the third week dad suggested that I get a car of my own, so heand I started looking. My male brain wanted a big, fast, hot car. Dadhowever, said no."All a girl needs is transportation."I argued a bit, then settled. How unusual, he pondered. There is something about this that he remembered from high school chemistry. It was much like the element mercury, although he had absolutely no doubt that it was something much, much more. It possessed all of the qualities of liquid, yet all things which entered it remained dry. Its metallic nature allowed it to be a perfect reflector.The time had come to come face to face with the truest reflection of himself. Since exiting the topiary labyrinth, John was afraid.