I added, ‘If things go all to Hell in Reno, you might end up with a roommate!’ Sally was even more pleased at that idea, we get along famously. Me... have almost no chance when the two of us are together. I drove the Van over to the clinic and dropped off the spare keys, one more problem solved. Back at the house, I called a cab. Off to the airport. I was back in Reno just three hours later. Nathan was waiting as I came down the concourse. Nathan is one of the security staff at the casino, a huge. I was ticked about that dumb rule at your college!”I nodded, “I know. But once February is over I don’t have to be quite as paranoid. It’s still a concern, though, because I really don’t want a run-in with the dean who’s been on my case since everything that happened during Freshman year.”“You mean with Liz?”“Yes. I guess she’s told you everything?”“Pretty much. So I can’t visit you?”“You and Emmy can’t be in the dorm room, or even upstairs, as long as you’re under eighteen.”“That stinks! You. In the unlikely event the traders offered us gold or dollars, we'd negotiate down to two hundred twenty-five dollars a kilo.We had rehearsed the negotiations as much as we had my cover story. When the leader of the traders said he had Jordanian dinar I asked for two hundred twenty dinars a kilo for the hash and sixty-five for a kilo of the grass. The trader explained that he had to pay a large bribe to Sheik Omar in the form of product and he couldn't pay those prices; that's when negotiations. ’ I kissed her, tenderly, holding her as though she were made of porcelain, as though she might break. ‘Are you sure you want this?’ I asked. She nodded and I stroked her hair, looking into her eyes as I sat up and began to undress. Nerves suddenly overcame me as I realised what was about to happen. I felt like a virgin, and in a way I was. I’d never made love to a woman before, and I was scared, scared but excited. I lay back next to her, both of us now naked, and we held each other close,.