The meal had been filling, but the waitress had described the dessert in words that were too tempting to refuse. Since neither of them had wanted to e...t an entire dessert he had suggested that they share one.“You shared?” Diana asked.“Yes,” Dan answered. Listening to his sister was putting an entirely different interpretation to the date.“She must have really enjoyed herself,” Diana said. There was something romantic about sharing a dessert with a date. She asked, “Were there many long pauses. The five people walked across the deserted banquet room floor and up on the stage. The woman with the briefcase walked to the audio-visual control console at the left of the stage and took a memory stick out of the briefcase and plugged it in. By the time Hank was behind the podium the wall behind him lit up with the title of his multi-media presentation: THE ROLE OF ROBOTICS IN WORKPLACE SECURITY.A white-haired woman opened the door to the banquet room and dragged a cleaning cart in. She was. . I guess I was.” I said, turning to see who was talking to me. It was the little girl that had fascinated me since the beginning of the term. I had learned her name, but nothing else. “Is that a bad thing?”She glowered at me. “But you’re gay, right?”“Not last time I checked! I am sure the girls I am seeing in town would be devastated to hear that.” I joked, shaking my head.“You are dating girls?” Nina looked angry, and I couldn’t, for the life of me, figure out why.“It’s Nina, right? Nina, why. It had probably been a year or more since she last heard from him. Video calls, being a rather new technology, had not been very common until the last year or two. When Kay accepted the call she had not really thought about the fact that all she was wearing was a sheer nightgown. On the other end of the call Bob was not wearing a suit but appeared to be wearing a casual collarless shirt. When he moved his phone slightly she could see he was just wearing shorts.They engaged in small talk.