I guess I didn't show you much gratitude, did I?" Jackie clutched her mom's hand. "I know you worked hard and I know you tried your best. I guess I wa... being too selfish to realize how much you were trying."The old woman clutched Jackie's hand tighter. Tears were flowing again. "I wish we had more time."Jackie sobbed. "So do I."The old woman opened her eyes. "You've got to run to classes, don't you?"Jackie squeezed her mother's hand, nodding through the tears. "I'll come back later."*****Jackie. Hours of talk and then the rush to make the Lakeshore Limited.I enjoy riding trains and if I'd had my wits about me when I planned this trip I would have booked a sleeping compartment instead of ending up scrunched up in a regular seat. At least there was no one sitting next to me. The people in front departed somewhere in Indiana and the kid behind me who had been jumping around since we left had completely worn himself and his mother out. Just me and that young couple right across from me.. I could feel the crooked grin breaking out on my face.The pretty smiles of my mom and her sister broke into face-breaking, laughing grins and they tumbled into the chair on top of me. Both of them. Giggling and tickling my ribs as their soft and lovely bodies settled onto me. I was covered with kisses and hugs from my two very best friends."Oh, Charley, your first slap from a girl!" And we were here!" Ohmigod. Did her mother find out?" I don't think so. I just came right. I knew right where you were going to go.’ ‘Oh,’ was the only thing that I could say after that. She flung her right arm around me and put it on my shoulders. Her touch was gentle. That surprised me. She behaved differently and act tough when she needed to at hockey camp. ‘You know I thought that was pretty romantic of you for sticking up for me back then. I don’t believe I got a chance to thank you,’ she said leaning in closer to me. She kissed me on my lips, but as quickly as she made the.