They talked while Jake cooked, popping the sausages and bacon under the grill. He prepared the mushrooms and fetched a can of one-calorie oil from the...cupboard.“I use that brand, too, initially for Clay’s fried breakfast, and when I wanted to lose weight, but now I find it a boon for everything,” she said, “you look good on it, Jake, really good.”“Thanks,” he grinned, “you look pretty fantastic on it yourself.”With curtains thrown back, I was warm with the spring sunshine streaming through the. Doc pronounced that he was pleased with our work and that we’d receive full credit for the class—my last requirement for graduation besides my final project.I hadn’t played racquetball or set foot in the club in the three weeks since I got back from Colombia. Fuck it. I didn’t figure I’d be playing much anymore. I was running, though. In fact, I hardly drove my car. I ran to school and then to the studio and then home. I sure wasn’t gaining any weight. If anything, I was even thinner.Saturday. Nice to meet you, Aggie." You too Rikki. To make a long story short, some mean girls from high school transferred here..." she went on to tell Rikki about the fight. "... next thing I remembered was waking up here.Rikki nodded her head. "That explains the concussion, broken foot and sprained ankles. The rest of your injuries must be from your falls, and when they dumped you outside the hospital. They did plan and execute an almost perfect crime. There was no foreign DNA found on you and they. I wanted to run my hands down your back, and pull you in to my body, so you could feel what I was feeling. I wanted to wrap my arms around you, and hold you close, and never let you go. When you kissed me back, my world exploded, and everything I ever thought I wanted from you, or wanted to give to you, flashed before my eyes. Our lives as they could have been flashed before me. It would have been beautiful! I know there are many things I failed to tell you, things that maybe would have helped.