"I know. You didn't know. Are you OK?" Linda said putting her hand onShannon's shoulder. She could see that her pain was nothing when she sawthe look ...f shame in the eyes of the girl who stood before her. "Do youneed to talk?" Linda said sympathetically."I...I have to go." The girl said pushing her way passed Linda.Linda turned to follow her, but the girl quickly ducked into the girls'bathroom. Linda had wanted to follow her, offer to be there for her, butshe knew that she couldn't force her to. Tall, slim as a whip with shoulder length black hair, liquid dark brown eyes and a faint Spanish accent, she looked like a model. The taut firm breasts and ass pressing against her expensive dark grey dress were obviously unconstrained by underwear. She wore open-toed high heeled sandals that made her taller, stretching her already long legs ‘til it seemed they went forever up heaven-ward. She had a small mouth, dark red lipstick and rouged high cheekbones. Every guy in the room had his eye on. Taking a last deep breath he took aim. The limousine rolled to a stop directly in front of Jimmy’s window, the chauffeur was getting out and coming round to open the door. Jimmy’s pulse quickened, he felt the butt of his rifle press into his shoulder the cold hard metal of the trigger as he slowly began to apply pressure to it. The man was getting out now his head perfectly visible through the telescopic lens, Jimmy fired. It was in that instant that Jimmy realized that everything had gone. Busy with school. Joe was too, and the beginnings of his novel.Eddie had been impatient for a different reason. Finally gathering everyone together for MIRE rehearsals. He and Sandy had sent tapes back and forth to arrange her choral group. And Charlie had been largely absent as well, either in Boston with Sandy and Stuart or finishing up his multi-media show with his old fellow School for Performing Arts alumni.Which ended up being a remarkable, well attended and well received event. Four.