‘You didn’t have to buy the whole shop!’ ‘Who’s Rob?’ asked a man’s voice and Nicole turned ashen white, her smile vanishing in a heartb...at. ‘Sean — what are you doing here?’ The flowers were placed on the side table and Nicole’s ex boyfriend came and stood beside the bed, a very contrite expression on his handsome face. ‘The Police told your mum and Kate. She told me.’ ‘You’re still together then?’ Nicole said bitterly. Sean reached out to grasp Nicole’s hand but she snatched it away. ‘Oh. She came and sat on the other chair and looked at me, slightly smiling.She asked me how my day was and I said, it was really good to spend some time with classmates outside of school. Even the movie and lunch turned out to be good, I told her that I was feeling tired and lay on the sofa. We then chit-chatted for some more minutes and she made me a lemon juice to feel refreshed and asked me if I wanted something to eat. I said I was fine but did not bother to get up.She then told me, sam, why. More ethereal and yet base. An essence.The other girls on shift worked the room wandering from patron to patron. Or they sat together, read or conversed between sets.Her shift had been long and rather dull to this point. Some newbees, one regular. He was always nice. Polite conversation before and after, even during sometimes, but not often, she thought. She held his attention in other ways. On one occasion he had remarked that his "reaction" was only very strong in this sort environment. And. “You betcha! Big, small, medium-I love them all!” he nodded.“Especially when they're young and perky, I assume,” Nancy suggested.“What? They're beautiful at any age. Are you worried?” he asked her with a serious look.“Me? Well, I'm almost fifty, Lewis. Of course I'd feel self-conscious about them,” she admitted.“Nothing to worry about, Nancy!” Lewis said with a wink and gentle smile.“You think so?” she asked, as she loosened her the tie on her robe.“I know so! You never caught me checking them.