Neither of the room keys I had opened it. I put my high-security badge in the slot, and it beeped, but did not show any lights. Either way, it was unl...cked. When I went up the seventeenth floor, the keys Anna had given me worked fine. Back on the sixteenth, my floor key the desk gave me didn't work on the lock, but both cards Anna gave me did.That makes sense. I bet the ones for schools were done special so that no one could slip between floors or someone get on the floor when a kid lost their. That’s pretty damn impressive.”“Whatever. Can we change the topic, please?” I asked.She laughed, “Are you embarrassed?”“No. It’s just I’d rather forget about it and focus on being your friend. That was a ‘one and done’ thing for me. Period.”“She’s going to try.”“Let her. I’ll tell her ‘no’. You see, she said, almost verbatim, something that another girl said to me about cheating. And I just can’t abide by that kind of thinking. And before you think I’m some kind of hypocrite, I have a firm rule. ’ he said. ‘I’m Michael.’ Christine didn’t know what came over her. Suddenly she saw him in a whole new light, and realised that she was very attracted to him. He wasn’t her usual type — far from it — but the feeling was undeniable, and she very much wanted to get close to him. Michael seemed to sense it, and came over towards her. Before she knew what was happening she’d reached out and pulled him to her, their lips met and she felt an incredible flood of desire. This was insane, but she. That has to be a fundimental contradiction somehow. And she’s so fucking perky! He felt comfortable with Ai and recognized with a bit of a shock that he felt no need for her. Usually he felt a sexual tension at this stage, a longing, an urge to move things forward and reach that ‘go or no go’ point where sex would either happen or he would know it wouldn’t. Not with Ai and it wasn’t because he had already had her, or at least had her in a way. This was different. It was as if they had known.