She touched his shoulder. When she looked up, she saw me.I guess I don’t hide expressions well, but I felt like the little boy whose girlfriend just...took off with another boy. I tried going back to the project on the bench before me, hardly accomplishing anything.I concentrated. Didn’t see her walk up beside me. she swung her hips, bumping into me just a little bit. To somebody who didn’t know what was afoot, it could’ve been accidental.I’m not that person. Electricity coursed through me. “Hey,. We've had her over for dinner a number of times. She plays volleyball in a private league and is a star player."I have friends who were interested in dating her because she is such a neat person. She has always been polite but none of them ever went further with her."His wife said, "She told me that they were nice but just not the right guy."I said, "Officer, what happens now?"He said, "It's troubling. Usually, there would be some suggestion of an issue. However, you had to break in to her. I'm not gonna stay here all day just because you wanna go to your classes." That's cool," I told him levelly. "I can get a ride home from Cindy and Tracy." Oh," he said weakly. "Whatever." He went storming off.I sighed, watching him go. I could not, would not get in that car with him again. So what was I going to do now?As he'd promised, Mike and his car were long gone when school ended that day. I found Tracy and Cindy without much searching and they gave me a ride. Cindy elected to stay for a. He had freely acknowledged his lusty feelings for her, which were normal and natural; he was a man and she was a sexy beautiful woman.It had been easier to dismiss her when she was simply a cliché: the spoiled young flapper.He thought this dinner together might answer some his own questions about his own feelings. He would wear his best suit on Tuesday and bring a change of clothes in a garment bag.He wondered if they would, in fact, bundle again.Gene threw himself into his work Tuesday,.