" I never understood that," I said. "This makes me happy, so why not behappy? Phyllis was so...solemn all of the time. It was like she was in anocean ...ver her head. Me? I was going for a swim."I smiled at her analogy. It was true. Phyllis was somber. She acted as if Ihad trapped her into this. But the door was never locked. I knew she wentto see Ryan that day. Of course I knew. I had a tracking device in herpurse. But my sissies can leave any time they wish. That's part of thedeal. They aren't. Our love affair spanned four years until I could no longer remain a hidden lover in her life. I so wanted to let the world know of my passion for this woman, the excitement she brought to my everyday existence, the excitement I felt being one with her when we made love, or just held each other's hand when no one was looking.This one night a friend shared a text sent by her oldest daughters that Kim had taken her last breath of life earlier that morning and was now at peace in Heaven, finally. She’s even looking in his direction. Their eyes meet and for what seems to be only a short moment both of them couldn't break eye contact. It wasn’t just a moment, or at least it was long enough for Steve to notice that Daniel wasn’t at all interested in what he has to say about computer games. “Do you know her?” he asks instead. Daniel answers while still following the girl with his eyes, “Yeah, she’s in my Math class. She approached me yesterday at lunch, probably wanted to get to know me a. After about twenty minutes he asked me where the bathroom was and I told him, he got up and drunkenly bounced off the walls down the hall to the bathroom. I heard the bathroom door shut at the end of the hall so I kept cleaning up the kitchen. A few minutes later I heard him call out my name from the bathroom, so of course, I went down the hall and leaned up against the bathroom door and asked if everything was alright. He responded and told me he couldn't figure out how to open the door, so I.