Really? Hadn’t you realised?’I shook my head, again.It was true. I had never been told that I was small before Sara mentioned it. It felt almost m...re nausea inducing that she wasn’t mean about it either - just genuinely surprised that none of my previous girlfriends had ever brought it up. But there wasn't time for contemplation of how I came to be twenty two before anybody had let me in on my shortcomings. Sara was already galloping ahead.‘Gina needs a boyfriend like you. The two of you are. ”“Let’s hope you do.”“Damn straight I will. Good day to you then!”Charlie marched straight out of the office in a huff. He hoped to make a grand impression on the admissions woman, as she’d see how fiercely determined he was. But just as he slammed the door shut, he opened it again and marched straight back into her office.“How do apply for this thing again?”The admissions woman smiled with the type of exhaustion that his mother had sometimes given him when he horsed around too much. She led. " I did try to fight them." He looked at me imploringly with moist eyes,made uncomfortably more pleading by long flickering mascaraed lashes,dark kohl eyeliner, and a faint sheen of pale blue eye shadow."I know you did," I said trying to sound quite reassuring whenunconsciously maybe I still felt a bit sickened at how my friend, who Ithought was a "proper" boy, could ever let them make him prance aboutdressed and behaving like a stupid soppy girl and not rebel every singleday."We'll get away. But through that fear and swirling pain, Sienna had finally been able to remember what it was like to live. She never wanted to go back to that empty place, dull and cut off from everything around her. Sienna could almost taste the air around her now, it was so teeming with energy. Jasper's energy.They had been going nearly non-stop, feeding off of one another's emotions and letting them build and build until Sienna thought she would burst. It hadn't all been sexual, though much of it was..