“I… I love you, too, Justin. So... So...” She drew in a deep breath, then, in a barreling rush, almost shouted, “So you better survive! You be...tter turn that machine off and come back to me!”She glued her lips to mine. Her passion unleashed molten hot. It bubbled out of her, a volcanic eruption that swept me away. I held her tight, savoring this moment. If this was last time we'd ever kiss, I would memorize it. The feel of her petite body against mine, the heat of her lips, the sweetness of her. ” “Cindy had tried to give me head the last night together and for the first time in my life i couldn't get it up. If we can't make love is that a deal breaker?” Kareen looked into my eyes. I started to get uncomfortable with her look. Finally she said “if in fact you can't get an erection there are pills or therapys available to you. I'm sure that your company insurance would cover those. But honestly i don't think we would need them. Lets not get ahead of ourselves ok?” i nodded. “Are you. **************** Things had been going amazingly with Michelle. The one problem was we just seemed to keep bumping into my former neighbor and her former cocaine dealer Joe. Every time we ran into him on campus, which our class schedules made nearly inevitable, Michelle got depressed and shaky, which did not do wonders for her state of mind. She would come out of the depressions fairly quickly, but I had finally made the very coldblooded decision that Joe really wasn’t very much use to me. You don’t WANT it. The problem is that you don’t care. Something comes along and it’s a choice between me being hurt or something else happening then you pick me getting hurt. You’re my mother. You’re supposed to protect me. The past two months it hasn’t been anyone here that’s kept the knife out of my throat. It’s been Emma. Today you demanded I throw her away for the people that put the knife here in the first place and now you’re angry that I didn’t. I don’t trust you any more. None of you..