The love of my youth, my ballroom dancing partner. I blushed spontaneously. So often I abused the electric toothbrush with you in mind! You asked what... I wanted to drink and in a few moments we leaned on a table and talked about our work (you are a music director), our marriage (both in a rippling wedlock), well, just about everything. I felt the warmth of your presence, your attention invading my body. Delightful. And then you said, “To be honest Eve, the reason why I came was my silent wish to. I was sat down peering away into my phone like us young ones do, when the dentist's door opened and in stepped a woman with a young guy about my age who was clearly her son. You could see the resemblance, they both had thick brown hair, her hair was shoulder length and she was wearing a lovely purple flowery dress with thin straps over her shoulders holding the flimsy dress up. As she entered her gaze locked onto me and she smiled at me when I gleamed up from looking texting my friend.Her smile. " Then why is someone starting rumors about me?" Jealousy, girlfriend, someone hates you and will do anything to hurtyou." But why, I don't even know who it could be?" Kurt will find out, trust me, he takes care of people he likes."I had a pretty good idea of who started the rumor, it's not like it tookrocket science to figure it out. Tiffany had warned me she would make mylife miserable and obviously this was her attempt at it."What are you thinking about?" Melisa asked."I think I know who. . different, somehow.”“Well ... Sorry. You are the first person I’ve confided to in decades.” Now, Io sounded a bit diffident. “And only the fourth person I’ve been completely open with ever. These records are completely confidential. I’ve done a thorough psychological analysis of you in the last months, and I’m not very good at that. Perhaps I’ve misjudged.”“Io,” Chris tried to sound apologetic. How do you apologize to a machine intelligence? “I just don’t know how to interface with ... what.