"I'd only had a handful of lessons before I ended up in my first gunfight, and I ended up getting shot too." Really?" Mattie asked, her eyes growing l...arge."She did, but only because someone surprised her. She and her friend both killed someone, saving my life earlier, and we were hunting a whole group of survivalists hidden in an armory equipped with the very best weapons. I was lucky to have her there." Wow! Now I'm really going to practice. If she can get shot, even knowing as much as she. He had just pulled into a motel parking lot. It was fairly early. The young man knew he could never make it as a long haul truck driver."Rooms, Klaatu?" Maya looked terrified. "You're not going to leave me alone tonight." But--" I know what you're going to say. Well, we can register as husband and wife or brother and sister. I trust you and they won't know the difference anyway." That wasn't what I was thinking." I don't care, Klaatu. You're not going to leave me alone."Klaatu shrugged his. . I just think that the time is right for us to go back to being just friends. The 'benefits' part has certainly been ... incredible. But you're with Amber now and if I'm going to move on from you, if I'm going to get over the feelings I've been developing for you, the sex part is something we're going to have to stop."I nodded, disappointed but understanding. "I get it."Lynne then blushed a brighter pink. And rather sheepishly, she then added, "I, uh. I also kinda met someone." Wait, what?". "It's not like I was spying on you or anything," she said. "I remembered that you came up here for school after you graduated. I didn't know if you were even still here, but I asked a couple of the older girls on my floor if they ever heard of you."I shifted in my chair a little, suddenly a bit uncomfortable with the thought of what someone from home might have heard if they asked about me around campus. "So who told you where to find me?" I asked. "I mean, not like I'm, like I was hiding from.