I told her it was her choice that I didn't hold it against her. She said that John would not return her calls. I laughed and said the only way John... would ever talk to her would be to keep her word to him. WHatever you promised you would do either do it or forget about John. He and I have been best friends since 3rd grade I know how he operates. Shelly looked down and asked if I knew what John wanted? I told I didn't again John was all about surprises. She told me thanks and left. That. Sigh, it had been worth a try, anyway. Axorie changed the screen without comment.A desert caravan, dusky robed guards wielding massive scimitars, overloaded ill-tempered camels trudging along single file. "Too hot." said Hardcase. "Too boring" said Steetch "Too far to walk." said Freaky. Axorie changed the scene.A medieval village of central Europe style, on the Sein, Rhone, Rhine, or Danube. It looked promising until the cart piled with bodies was wheeled through the street to the ringing of. " I sighed. "Jo, sometimes you come off as terribly self—assured, and then there's like now, that you seem scared." I know, Stoney. I'm trying really hard to level out. It's you. You're real and you're nice and you're smart and you're decent and a few weeks ago I wanted just to be your girlfriend and now we're going steady and I really am falling."I smiled. I felt good. But I was worried that she was falling because she wanted to be in love, that the idea of being in love was more important. Ian too had joined them in ecstatic joy, his balls emptying in an eruption of seed that hit the side of the bed 4 feet from his seat, it was unbelievable. Stunned they lay silent, all three realising it had been a once in a lifetime happening, an experience above any so far, not since the loosing of her virginity, or their honeymoon all those years ago had she come so completely, so hard, or so heavily. They lay together he dismounted, now, there was nothing to say, it was over she had given.