We’d stayed friends, but not really close friends and I hadn’t seen her in almost a year.Marlene answered the door when we rang the bell and while...she smiled and said “Nice to see you again Harry” I could tell she was quite surprised to see me with Sarah. She welcomed us and walked us through the house and out onto the patio. She pointed out the alcoholic and nonalcoholic punch bowls. She showed us where the beer keg was and the left to answer the doorbell.We were not the first arrivals and we. Please, Sarah. Just go away. Think about what you really want. Go back to your wonderful fuck. Don't come around to lie to me. It's bad enough you've got another man, but you couldn't even respect me enough to tell me the truth."So she left. She gulped twice and seemed about to cry again, but then she set her mouth and, looking neither left nor right, walked back down the hall.One day led to the next.He lectured days, because he had to. He tried to write. He sat in his crummy little efficiency. Still holding to the window, I pressed myself to my arms trying to cover my breasts. He was now on his knees, kissing the ends of my hair, smelling it deeply.He took my hair in his hands and stood up, tied my hair to a bun, and hugged me again from the back, this time cupping my both breasts with his hands, my eyes were now closed, I felt his breath on my neck and turned my head just to meet his lips and we kissed, this time I was more eager to do so.Breaking the kiss, I turned around and. "What... what are we measuring here?" Everything!" the gruff doctor spat."They must be after something in particular, I mean, why else do we-"Ferrier cut him off, his eyes dull and defeated."They want everything Dr. Nelson." His voice was tired. "Vitals, reaction times, decimal levels on fucking moans, every scrap of data they can get their feelers on.He let out a defeated laugh, the strain showing in his weathered face."Everything doctor, once they think of it!"So they measured everything.