"He had no way of knowing that she had been through the same drill with Mary. After almost another hour, he had told far more than he ever intended to...reveal to anyone. He corroborated Mary's description of sex for them as occasional, plain-vanilla intercourse that relieved him but was a frustrating duty for her.They had talked so long that it was time for dinner. The start of aerobics would have to wait until later. Barbara stayed with him for the meal. He was hit with yet another new female,. .. Whatnow?" I don't know...I called the apartment office but it's like 7 right now.They won't be here till 9 to get me a copy of my key. The super won'tanswer my calls and I have a class at 8. Shitttttt! I'm screwed." What's the big deal though? You brought your books over last night andI have a shower if you remember. You can wear the same clothes, whocares?" she said matter-of-factly."No I can't," he said with exasperation. "These reek right now". He saidpointing to his shirt."I have a whole. "Now you owe me something else but that's alright, I missed you screaming. Hurts doesn't it, slut?" I didn't care if I was going to be whipped, the pain was clouding my mind and I felt like I was being ripped into two even though the pain was subsiding. You stopped midway and I was about to find out why you did that.You reach down to my face, licking and kissing my tears away with surprising gentleness. For a moment, I'm taken aback. But that slight relief, knowing you might not want to hurt me. Someone thinking I was this beautiful couldn't be that bad. This would get a bit too deep I thought when I reconsidered and I wanted to cut our connection as soon as possible I didn't want this woman to dwell on this chance encounter. I just continued past but she stopped and turned to follow me with her eyes. The last thing she saw before I turned the corner to the very steeply inclined street was the sapphire ring holding my hair together.When out of sight of the women and not noticed by.