. were."ROBBY" she squealed. 'What are you DOING?!"Robby, who had wanted to hide when his sister barged in, decided to be brazen about it. "I'm standi...g by a pillar naked. Got any more intelligent questions?" Now Robby." said his mother.Megan turned on her mother. "Mommy! What's going on here? Why is Robby NAKED!?" Calm down Megan" said her mother. "I'm doing a painting and Robby was nice enough to pose for me. It's nothing, really."Megan was craning around the painting and her mother to get a. This made his heart and respiration rate climb again butwithin two blocks it was back to normal and Ted was beginning to accepthis fate. This time he entered the hotel without near the interpolationas he did the first time and got in the elevator. Just before the doorclosed a large Black man entered and went to push the button but he towas going to the fifth floor. When he saw it was already activated heturned to Ted and smiled and said, "Good day madam I see we are on thesame floor, maybe we. ’ He smiled mischievously as he spoke. ‘Oh, do you now?’ Her smile was equally teasing. ‘Yes. It’s my last chance to see you, before you leave in a couple of days, but I pull out tomorrow night.’ Her heart felt heavy, at this realization. But why? He was only a dinner date for the night. Why did she feel a sense of loss? ‘Where are you going?’ she asked, a little too brightly. ‘I’m doing a milk run up to Darwin’ he answered. ‘What’s a milk run?’ ‘It’s stopping in at the station homesteads, and. The man had a thick middle eastern accent.“Yeah, heading to a party right now,” I replied, not wanting to be rude.“Party? We can go party at my place right now.”“No thank you,” I said with a nervous laugh. I quickened my pace in the hopes that I could lose him.The man, not discouraged in the least by my response, kept up.“Where you from, are you studying here?” He asked.“Yes,” I answer nervously. “America.”I turned the corner into a side street heading to the direction of Ellen’s house. I hoped.