Rose wouldn’t purposefully bait him. It must have just been an oversight on her part. The flowers did look attractive where she had put them, and in...any case, he needed to stay focused for their conversation.He caught Rose’s scent and heard her entering the room behind him. “Good Afternoon,” she said as he turned.He was agog. Rose had on the floral dress she had been wearing the first time he saw her. It was a garment that reminded him, infallibly, of the nearly unbearable desire he felt when. She had tried it a few times before and took just a little bit out of a one ounce bag. She saved it in her purse for her boyfriend and her on a later date. Later that night around eleven the Andrew and Jane returned. Andrew told Casey he would have to pay her tomorrow. He asked her to come by in the afternoon around one. On the ride home he asked how she liked the house. She told him it was nice. There was a bit of small talk and then she was dropped off. The next afternoon Casey went to. You could be right," I saidslowly, mulling it over. "Or he might just be the kind of guy whogets off on the idea of transforming, rather than wanting to be a girl*per se*. He was pretty interested when we talked about the possibilityof turning into a dragon, too." I hope he gets the chance to try sometime. After what we did, youcan bet his parents aren't going to let their boys go to the libraryby themselves." Yeah."We chatted for a while longer, and then I started re-reading _Howl'sMoving. The rather baggy clothes she had on hid her figure quite a bit but I knew from when she had hugged me that she was not a skinny waif. Over coffee, waiting for our food, we compared lives. I found out that Chuckie was actually her stepfather, raising her after her mother had skipped when she was in her early teens. This was the only life she'd ever known, but had wondered what life was like outside of the porn industry. When the food arrived we dug in, both of us being famished, and conversation.