The experience was certainly liberating and the spontaneous sexual indulgence both erotic and stimulating, but the sexual interaction with virtual str...ngers and the uncertainty of gender, always made him feel a little uncomfortable. There was a slight tone of disappointment in Sarah’s voice when he rang to explain his reason for not going back to The Brandling Club. She sniggered into the mouthpiece when he mentioned gender. What she said next left him speechless. She said she was surprised. I’d spent two years with Zoe in sixth form and never ever seen any situation where anyone had ever lent in over her. She had always sat a bit apart from everyone. It kind of made sense. I was beginning to see and think of Zoe as much more of a delicate vulnerable person than I ever had before. I used to think of her as cold and hard and strong and distant. But now I realised how little I had paid attention to her, apart from trying to steal glimpses of boobs when she stretched.“You look well” I. ”“Well, you still have to go; you have to have a certain amount of class time each year or you won’t be able to graduate.“I know, but it just seems so pointless.”“Just hang in there; you have less than a month to go.”“Actually, just three weeks to graduation.”“Your mother would have been so proud of you,” he said as a tear slipped down his cheek.She got off her chair, and came around the table and held him tightly.“I know, Dad, I know.”She was so much like her mother. She looked just like he. Detective Taylor and his unit set up their equipment while they waited for a call or a note . . . They would just wait for some type of a clue. Shannon curled up in the red over stuffed chairs by the phone, her head kept dropping as she dozed off only to awaken to the fear flowing through her veins. Her doctor monitored Shannon throughout the night as she wished Shannon would take a shot to relax her. Shannon’s eyes drifted over to Detective Taylor who had some of his belongings sent over to.