. I love you, Paul." I love you too." You do?" Yeah. More all the time."She reached up and kissed me properly. When she finally needed a break, Heathe... kept talking. "I think about you all the time. When I wake up. When we take photos. When ... well, when I touch myself. All I can think about is you." You know, you have a way with words, you know that?" Let me finish. I ... realised that I could let someone get that close, if that someone was you." How close?" That close." God." I pulled her. We decided to part ways and I ended up finding me my own apartment across town. Melissa and I were having our little fun and sleeping with one another but I had to cut off ties with Melissa for a few months to get my mind straight. Until one day she spotted me at the grocery store."Darren! she yelled. I was truly excited and upset at the same time. I was still in love with Melissa, but I also knew what this would bring. Those thoughts about everything that happened would start again. However, I. Nearly over," she added, glancing at the clock above the fireplace. It was approaching midnight, and they had just dispensed with the last of the dishes from the enormous Christmas dinner. The house had been full of relatives from both sides of the family tree. Arranging and preparing for the event had taken days and Sally had been marshalled into duty minutes after arriving home for winter break by her mother, Anne, who had given her eldest daughter a hug, a kiss and just enough time to shrug. And the three years difference, well, that's a lot when you're teenagers. Even different schools of course.So, I mostly watched TV in my room or used my computer or X-Box while she talked with her little friends for hours or watched movies on the TV in the family room that she would charge to our cable bill. That was okay with Mom and Dad, we both did it.Then, one afternoon, she was watching a movie as I walked into the family room and she turned it off as it ended and told me she was going up.