Hello Daniel,” Phil said, “Meet Lynn Stevens, the latest addition to our neighborhood. She and her husband Jim moved next door into the Nicholson�...�s house in early November.” “Pleased to meet you, Lynn,” Alicia said. “Where is Jim?” Kate asked. “He should be back shortly,” Lynn said, “We left the house gift at home so he ran over to get it.” “He’d better hurry,” I said, looking at Phil. Phil paused in a slightly puzzled look at me. I held his gaze. Without comprehension he let the comment pass.. I got up and went to my room to grab my jacket and a baseball cap and walked to the elevators. When it arrived, I rode down to the ground floor, then walked out of the dorm. I decided on one lap around the campus and set out at a brisk pace, intending to do my best to clear my mind, but not sure that was possible.I didn’t understand why Katy’s implication was having such an effect on me. As I walked, I mulled it over and about halfway around campus, an idea suddenly popped into my head. The. When we were leaving, he winked at us and Ewa kissed us both in front of the eleven customers that were in the bar at that time. As we walked to my car, Barb held me around the waist and thanked me for introducing her to her new friends. On the drive back to her Pilsen neighborhood, I asked if she wanted to stop for an early dinner but she declined. When we pulled up in front of her apartment building, she hugged me hard while French-kissing me and then said, “I have to prepare for my study. I think because it felt kind of other worldly. ;) The week leading up to was very tense between Andi and I. We both knewmy parents were going to be going out, and that we were going to have some good alone time. Not to mention the fact that we've both talked to different people about it, so both our minds were full of all these images that our online friends were putting in our heads. I think that's why it all happened so quickly. I told Andi I couldn't believe how far we'd gone, so fast...but.