BE THERE ! I NEED YOU !’ So I’m sitting at my desk in a fluster. Snatching the phone up I dial feverishly. ‘Kel ……. Pete’ ‘Something’s... come up. I need three days off …….. starting now’ ‘It’s not like I ask often ……. and you can deal with the Harper quote for me ….. come on ….’ The desperation must have been audible in my voice and Kel, my business partner, knowing me of old caved in ‘If you must Pete, if you must.’ Chucking on my leathers I jump on my bike and speed home. Throwing my favourite. That was the place where my friends and I used to go to play basketball and swim. We used to have pick up games that lasted for hours. You could almost always count on there being someone around to get a game of HORSE or enough for a three on three game. There seemed to be only two kinds of people at the "Y" in those days. Young guys and what we thought of as old men.You never saw the old men in the gym. Only in the pool and the showers. We always used to think it was because everyone swam in. I said right after it happen he was really excited about it and wanted to know if we could do it again, she laughs and say's he's crazy what did you tell him, I felt her twitching as we talked, I told him no cause you were upset by what had taken place, she quickly say's I wasn't mad or upset about it I was just embarrassed you have to tell him I'm not mad, I then ask her why do you ask do you want it to happen again she says no I was just curious if he found himself a girlfriend, I tell her no. "I've sent Helen home early, she's earned it, by opening her legs,"he smugly smiled. "I told you I'd make her my slut, that's 2 down and 1 togo, you and Helen out of the way only Mary left," he added. Arriving home from work latter that evening I coyly asked Helen how herday had been. "Pretty good, Mark has been so good to me, he's told me I'mto get a new assistant tomorrow," was her reply. "I wonder who he has in mind," I mumbled to myself.The following morning I was to find out who! The last.