I’ll still be around, but I’m going to give you all the time you need, ok?”It took a few seconds to register what she was saying to me, and then...I must have looked surprised.“Oh, yeah, thanks,” I stammered. “I’m probably not going to be real good company for a while, and yeah, I don’t know when I’ll want to...”“I understand,” she said. “Maybe it will be best if I let you have a break, give you time to think things over.”She put her hand on mine, and then left me alone.The Opposite of. Did you cheat?"Looking offended, Jen tinkled the ice in her glass: "As punishment forbeing a sore loser, you can start by fixing me a rum and coke, darling."Ade stood, annoyed with herself but relieved that Jen's first commandwasn't something unspeakably lewd.The voice from behind her made her pause, mid-step. "Aren't youforgetting something?"She couldn't think what, until Jen pointed at Ade's lower half."Oh you can't be serious." I require all my subjects to be naked. Besides, you *lost* that. . they'd been practically inseparable since early in their first year at Hogwarts when he and Ron had saved Hermione from a troll that she probably wouldn't have been facing if Ron hadn't hurt her feelings earlier that same day. But this, this was something private between the two of them and he, Harry, was left out for the first time in their relationship and he wasn't sure how that made him feel. It wasn't that he was jealous exactly, because even though he'd ended their relationship, his. I knew the obvious questions of every car passenger, I knew there was no point is asking where exactly we were going. I guessed that the prolonged silence was there to increase my anxiety about what awaited me. Well, it was working. I tried to concentrate on the view from my window, hoping to see some landmark that might help me understand where we were going. The roads widened and we accelerated to the correct 50 km per hour that everyone in the Netherlands obeyed.I watched as Zoe reached into.