Her other admirer was George Apple, Attorney at Law, a man in his early forties with lots of charisma and charm to talk her panties down with little e...fort on his part. Apparently, he was smitten sufficiently to disregard her age problem and decided to risk all in navigating his way up her channel of delightful tightness.Betsy knew she could handle him as a thirteen year old or as a twenty-three year old because he was so easy to read and willing to let her take the lead in everything they did. "Is there anyone else that wants to try me? Anyone else that thinks I am a weak coward? Hmm? Anyone?" she hissed.She stared into the eyes of each miner. The deadly darkness in her eyes put terror into the hearts of the miners. They all shook their heads in the negative and one of the younger miners actually pissed himself."Ok then ... go take your friend to the Doc."The miners rushed to their friend, and carried him out as quickly as was humanly possible.Again, Shaylee stood and walked slowly. He had no idea how he would cope with the funereal. Or even how he was going to arrange it. They taught many things in school, except copping with bereavement.He looked again at the wall clock "Maybe some one will arrange it for me." The clock continued to tick, for Simon it marked the demise of his mother, "No, I doubt it."Just then the front door opened and the sound of Tanya's voice wafted down the hallway. Simon's dark mood vanished instantly and he rushed through to meet her.Tanya dropped. The grey day outside seemed appropriate for the nerve-wracking experience we were undergoing. Had we done enough to pass, and go on to the second year? I told myself that I had, and I told Julie that I was sure she had too; but we both knew that I might be wrong.After a somewhat silent breakfast, when nobody really ate their usual amount, we all put our anoraks on, and headed off towards the Union.I suppose that we were quietly confident; we knew that we had attended all our lectures and had.