I don't know where the energy came from or why I headed toward the old flag pole at full speed; I just did. The next thing I knew I was waking up in t...e hospital. I can't even count all the time I woke up in the antiseptic smell and beeping machines in the hospital. I figured I had done some other dumb thing that would have killed anyone else, and the rest was a dream." We heard about what Kelly was doing for you," Annie said as a fact versus something to get me to say more about it.I shrugged. We both knew that her time living in this relative comfort was limited, her employment contract precluded her from taking the usual way out by marrying a good guy. Dating boyfriends was a firing offense under her contract. So, for that matter, was dating the firm’s lawyers like me. The service girls were essentially whores with tight, empty pussies. But she needed my reassurance of her personal worth more than anything. So I laid praise on her at every opportunity, I made her feel special, and. “Thank you Sven! Friday, next week?”“Ya.” He nodded. “I vill see you then.” He picked up his gym bag. “Goodbye. I vill see you all on Friday.” He took one last strange glance at the floating green crystal, and left.Tricia crossed her arms and struck an attitude pose. “This? Sven? This is the reason why you couldn’t pick us up from the hospital?” she asked, more than a little annoyed. “What? You have a hot date?”Annie took a deep breath to steady herself. “Sorry for springing this on you, but we. "I guess we'll be seeing a lot of each other now." "Why is that?" I asked. "The company holds a lot of family things for the executives, and all children over 17 are expected to go." I felt my mouth open, as he talked about the company. "Like later this month. There's going to be a huge dinner at the Astoria in New York, and I have to go. I'll bet you will too." I was listening to him and laid on my back. He took that as a good sign, leaned over, and kissed me! I wanted to fight it, and yet,.