Oh, God, how I long to hold her in my arms once more and feel her kiss. I let my face relax into a smile, my cracked and chapped lips reminding me tha... it had been a long time since I’d let any emotion play upon them. To make love to her under a summer’s sun, the sky cloudless and blue above us. The image of a meadow comes into my head. Plucking daisies and placing them in her blond braid as she giggles like the young woman I had fallen in love with. She had been a farmer’s daughter while I had. He gave a little squeeze before he ran his hand across towards my other shoulder, lingering over the nape of my neck, tickling almost. I shuddered to his touch, but it probably looked like a twitch. I'm not sure if anyone noticed besides me. But when I peeked a look up at Kevin, I saw he had on a cheeky smile. 'He's no fool. He knows what he's doing to me.' "Hey, why not join us? We're just startin'," Dan suggested. "Yeah sure, I mean, we don't want to impose," Kevin said, looking down at me,. ..”“ ... just you and me, bud. Just like Chicago,” Allie supplied.We kissed. I wasn’t hung up about doing anything with Allie like I was in Chicago last spring. We both shed our clothes and headed for the shower where we got really soapy and slid all around each other. I missed having Allie with us like she’d been in Seattle and Nebraska.“You know, I’m looking forward to having you in Seattle,” I said. “I miss seeing you.”“Well, look all you want,” she laughed as she unwrapped the towel from. I was amazed, upon seeing him work out, that he never seemed to stand up for himself or put these sarcastic whelps in their rightful places, as obviously he could at any time with the flick of one of those meaty biceps. Humility does seem to come easiest to those who are the most self assured. It has always amazed me to watch the goings on at the drinking fountain in the gym where I work out. You would truly expect that the hulks found there would step aside for no man. However, it seems the.