He went back outside, and looked at the road. He could barely see her, running hard down the gravel, toward the blacktop. She’d already made a mile,... in just six or seven minutes.He hopped in his car, and drove after her.She heard the crunch of gravel under tires as she stepped foot on the black top. She turned, and her heart sank as she saw Bobby’s car. She didn’t have anything left in her. She was gasping for breath, and had a stitch in her side. When had it gotten this hard to run?It was. She told him that she had worked on the globe theatre as a volunteer. He said he would love to see it and she agreed to take him down there on Saturday and show him around. When she got home that night she enjoyed telling me and we had great sex. She admits she was imagining having sex with Mike on Saturday but didn’t think it would happen.The rest of the week Mike paid her lots of attention and was keen to arrange meeting up on Saturday. When they were planning Saturday Mike asked her if I. Now, in my seventies, they hardly see me. Occasionally I am amused / mildly insulted when an attractive sacker at the grocery store asks me if she should carry the groceries to my car for me.Having worked in an office doing drawings all my life, I am not used to daily conversation. I am not that good at it. Never the less, I seem to be drawn to places like Panera's to see other forms of life, to hear sounds of others, and be somewhat intrigued with the interaction.There always seems to be some. I thanked him and told him I had committed to do the school project. I told him I would talk to him again in a year when the school was finished. We shook hands and he told me he was looking for talent that could do larger projects, the company needed to grow.The vacation slipped away. Fay's mother and sister gave me no reason to get pissed.Fay was serene and self possessed, she let her mother and sister know that we had a life of our own and that she was no longer their child.It was a happy.