The main airport was blocked by a couple of crashes and Bennie and I decided that we didn't want to land on a damaged runway. We flew gradually wideni...ng circles looking around for people and for an airport without success as to people. We did find an airport in the northwest corner of the metro area. We went around some more in circles but saw no one. We came back to the airport and looked it over carefully from a height and then low and slow. The runway wasn't perfect but looked better than. "Sure. Why not? Call me Cherry, please," she slurred. She should have stopped at four glasses, she thought. She placed her glass next to one of the bottles and let the warm water cloud her thoughts. William finished his wine, placing his glass next to Cherry's, kicked off his shoes and then lowered himself in the hot tub. He sat down in the tub, so close to his friend's mom that his muscled thigh rubbed against her soft one. He thought it was a really good thing when she did not move her leg. Ben carefully made sure he wasn’t blocking the light and unfastened her parka while she searched. The hallway was very cool, and she was sweaty. Her nipples hardened again. ‘What are you doing?’ ‘I’m too young to die,’ he said simply. He slipped his hands into her coat and under her top, stroking his fingers along the swell of her breasts. The keys jingled in her hand. ‘I can’t–‘ she began and then he leaned down and tongued her ear again. ‘You’re in the way. I can’t get at the door.’ ‘Oh,’ he. He was standing in a queue for a bus when the drunk driver mowed him and two others down. It was not fair and was cut short, all too soon, their plans for the future. Marriage, kids and a long happy life had all been extinguished in a fraction of a second. Being told he would not have known much about it didn’t help. She knew he would have looked to see what it was hurtling towards him, bouncing off of a brick wall. She knew he would have seen it coming and that was the real horror Rachel could.