” She slid her Vera Bradly wallet from her back pocket and threw it at me. I caught it and stared into the barren thing. “Oh.” She pushed past m... and climbed up the stairs. I heard her door shut and stood there thinking. What the hell? She always spent time with me when she came home… and there was no way in hell she would lose her money. She guarded every dollar she made like it was her child. I broke in my parents room and found enough change to buy a pizza. I ordered a stuffed crust. As our tongues tangoed, I lightly traced my fingers over the nape of your neck. I felt you give a little shiver and deepen the kiss. I tilted my head to give better access and I could feel you slip an arm behind my shoulders and pull me closer. We explored each others mouths, learning the contours of teeth, textures of each others lips and tongue. I haven’t kissed another man in so many years it was like kissing for the first time again. When we broke for air we were both breathing heaver.. He pulled out and, “ok, I have a first medicine to give you, but it may splash around, so I’ll cover your eyes with this extra mask, all you need to do is open your mouth as wide as you can and don’t close no matter how bad the taste is ok?” “Ok.” He covered himself quickly with the lab coat while she turned to her back and turned her head to him. “hmm this will be harder that way, how about you let your head dangle off the table end, yes just like that, why don’t you hold this mask over your. I kept glancing back to be sure that it was not following us.That little spurt of speed gave us what I estimated to be 18 miles that day, and we spent the night in another tree. All three of us were already tired of trees and hoped to find something better for the third night on the road. No luck, but we did do better on the fourth night.We were now close enough to the mountains to see them all of the time through the trees. We began to come to rock outcroppings, and we found a useful place.