With that we left.We waited until we were outside. As we walked to the car I could no longer contain my incredulity. "Where did they get that imbecile... A Sub Lieutenant fresh out of Britannia College has more sense." It's endemic in the police, they seem to give them special insensitivity training." That's as maybe, Milla, but that was just incompetent." I rather liked the comparison you made, between what they expected you to accept from them, and how they would treat you if the circumstances. Instead, I pressed pause on my retort. Perhaps Charlene and Michellestudied together quite a bit. For all I knew, their getting together togo over some last minute notes was a common recurrence. No need bitingoff the poor girl's head because Charlene wasn't here to make sure thenormal stuff happened."Sorry, Shelly," I said, hoping I sounded appropriately contrite. "Mydad had some stuff he wanted to talk to me about. Then I nearly brokemy neck running across campus in these stupid boots."The. And this night my parents had gone to a family wedding, which I declined to go on the pretense of the exam.On this night, I went over to the house and invited him for dinner. Since his wife wasn’t there, he used to often eat at our house, so he said okay. He came home for dinner and ate. I wore a very low cut tank top I had bought without my parent’s knowledge. His eyes were all over my boobs the entire time. I asked him to stay and help me with the exam and he readily agreed.We talked about. Today it was a little untidy and she looked a little red-eyed.“Sure, Nan,” I said. “You all right?”She assured me she was and went over to the sink and filled the kettle and switched it on. I watched and she was definitely not all right. I stood up and wen over to her. She pulled the dressing gown around her tighter.“Come on,” I cajoled. “We can’t have my favourite girl miserable. Tell me what it is.”She laughed and as she made the tea she told me that it was ten years to the day since.