He was awake. What would he be like now that the sense of urgency of last night was over? Deep down, Alexis knew he didn’t mean it when he said he ...oved her. How could he? He knew too much about what happened to her. Still, it was nice that he at least cared enough to want to make her feel better. Because she also knew he wasn’t trying to get her into bed. She wasn’t so naïve that she believed a man knowing her past could want her. Sooner or later she was going to have to open her eyes. It. My heart sunk lower and lower into my stomach as he stared me down. I knew what was coming, my face burning with shame. He just silently stared me down as I got closer and closer to him. He was rooted to the spot, not moving out of my way. I stopped, two feet away from him with no way to get by him and the bouncers. Then, I heard the two most terrifying words I've ever heard in my life."Have fun?"I stared at his feet with no idea what to say. My ass still sore and the room still spinning from. ‘I can guess where you are going…’ I asked and waited for her answer. ‘Ummm he wants me to go to his hotel.’ May whispered. The word ‘wants’ offered a chance, a final chance that the otherwise inevitable could be averted. Yet I knew it had to be her choice, I had to give her the freedom I had promised, however much it hurt. ‘Do you want to go?’ I asked, unsure what I wanted her answer to be. ‘Do you want me to?’ Her question threw it back to me. ‘It isn’t about what I want May. It is your. I have no clue how long it’s going to last but I’m enjoying it while I can.’ ‘That’s what you gotta do. But damn, my parents would never let me do that.’ ‘Which part? The backpacking or the guy?’ ‘Both.’ We laugh even as I confess, ‘Mine either. I sort of fudged my program end date.’ She laughs again, snorting in a wholly unladylike way. ‘Only you can pull this shit, Rai.’ Preening, I switch the conversation to Em, ‘So what’s up with you? How’s the summer job hunt going?’ ‘I found one.’ .