She looked somehow superior, like she was some woman of the world or something instead of just another housewife in a suburb. "I just like to get a ri...e out of you every so often." She rose from her chair and bent across the table, moving inches from my face, her lips just out of reach. "Tomorrow, my place," she swept across my field of vision. God, I hope she didn't notice me looking down her top. "Don't be angry with me." I wasn't angry, just put off balance and, if the truth be known,. "That's one life ambitionfulfilled, becoming a third wheel..." Jacinta..." Katie sighs. "How long have you been pining over 'PrinceCharming' again? What were you going to do when you shacked up with him,stuff Ophelia in the loft?" It- ugh, I dunno," I sigh. "This is just kinda sudden, you know? I mean,yes, I wanted Ophelia and Telemachus to get together, wanted to her tohave a little bit of fun, and if he turned out to be her Prince Charming,well, great! I just- ugh, I just didn't expect this. Army, I tried to keep up on my favorite team when ever I could. I would just show up on Gamedays, but after a couple of years I started to frequent the bar more and more, happy hour, Saturday afternoons and weeknight evenings. I got to be a regular and got to know the locals and the staff pretty well. As time went on Susan and I got to be great friends, we go to local night clubs after she got off, we did movie night, went to sporting events, after years of hanging people thought of us as a. You know the kind I mean; they have to rub your nose in how smart they are by spouting esoteric mathematical formulas at the dinner table and look at you funny when you don't get it,. stuff like that. Rika wasn't like that. She was an ordinary girl, but with a brain. And I really liked it.I was a mere sales manager but she didn't look down on me because of that. I was only average on the intelligence scale, but I could talk about a lot of things with a fair degree of acumen. In short, we had a.