And you don’t need to hear any more of this.’ ‘Do you still love her?’ ‘I don’t love her…the more vexing issue is whether I ever did…d...mb marriage…I was lonely, just back from overseas, she was needy…let’s not do this?’ … beyond the emptiness… Emptiness…his life was pretty damn empty. He dearly loved his children…adored them…doted on them and he was losing them. She had lost it all…her entire family in a horrible instant. …would have liked to say she’d loved the man… ‘Jeff, I miss my girls. ." the woman looked back down at the form, " ... Academy Arms Apartments, where you live?"Cindy suddenly looked panicked. "That's the Arms Academy," she told the woman, "not the Academy Arms. It's not an apartment building ... it's a school." You're in college?" the woman asked, concerned. "You're a student?"Cindy squirmed. A button popped loose on her blouse. "I'm in high school. The Arms Academy is an orphanage. I've lived there my whole life."The woman gawked for a moment, then looked down. ”“Oh, just give everybody a B,” argued Lexi. “Most people will be happy with that, and the brains could stand to be taken down a notch.”At that moment Jackie was inclined to agree. She leaned forward and took one nipple into her mouth, rolling it around between her teeth and tongue. Then she sucked the other one, and afterward Lexi took her by the hand and guided her upstairs. Once they were in Lexi’s bedroom the teenager pulled off the rest of her clothes. She climbed up onto the bed and got. Still, we do not indulge in more than a friendly exchange of looks between strangers, a renewed flash of our teeth bared of the habitual social awkwardness—maybe slightly brighter than just common courtesy among such fleeting acquaintances, and surely lingering a bit longer. Before I realize it, though, I’m captivated by your irises, their dark turquoise hue hypnotizing me, making me unable to move, flooding my head with telepathic pictures.I see your joyous beam just before your lips crash on.