Then she snuggled up behind me and wrapped her hand around my waist and pulled me closer. I hit play and the movie kicked on. After about an hour of...crying, I looked over my shoulder at Nicky and called her a cry baby. She laughed and shoved my shoulder, and said “shut up”. I said “whatever, you know you love me”. She pulled me close and said “yeah whatever”. And then she pressed her lips up against the back of my ear and kissed it. I got goose bumps on my arm and the back of my neck;. She had worn a black abaya with a red hijab. She was looking really attractive. Her smile was passionate as well. But as usual, it did not exist for longer than a moment.He stood up, to welcome her. The place was almost empty by then.“hi shiroo, thank you for coming. Come, sit here” he showed her the seat in front. She came and sat there.“hmm…so?” She asked, with her hands crossing the fingers of each other, elbows on the table and her face on her hands.He also positioning himself,. ” I finished breakfast, trying to calm my nerves as I did. I thought about refusing to go, but my past experiences told me that Kathy wouldn’t hesitate to pull out the threat of exposing me, and that if I tried to resist she would make her demands even more outrageous. Thus, less than an hour later, I was climbing out of the car in the mall parking lot, trying not shake like a leaf. “Go ahead,” Kathy ordered. “I’ll just follow you around from a safe distance enjoying the show.”For the next. I wished I'd recorded the meeting now like I'ddone with the others. It had just seemed a little too intrusive for theold dear though. She might not have opened up as much if I had.To think that her life had been transformed like that, as I was surethat it had. And why? Because she'd wished she was retired? Was it assimple as that? Why did it need a device of some kind sometimes and notothers?It was kind of creepy: the idea that any errant thought might tosssomeone into another life like that..