Just as I stood up the bus hit a huge bump on theroad, and caused me to stumble forward on my heels. I could feel myselffalling forward and I closed m...y eyes and tried to brace myself forlanding face down on the floor. But I never made it to the floor,instead I felt myself getting grabbed by two strong arms and liftedback to my feet again. I looked up and found myself staring into thesmiling face of Matthew. I blushed with embarrassment and thanked himfor catching me, although in doing so it. ) We got back to the office at two and I sat around for a while and pretended I was interested in some 80 page memo about a coding problem the engineers were having with the new Medicare system. That lasted about five minutes and then my eyes stopped focusing and I settled in for an open-eyed nap, something I’d perfected in college during my lecture class on Renaissance and it’s effects on modern thought. So it had been a long day and I was dragging by the time I got home. Amy’s car was out. Me: Why should I ? I’ve no reason to lie here. By this time we had returned back to our house and we stopped our talk and got busy, she with her daily chores and I went to do some yoga. During the day, whenever our eyes meet, we will exchange a sheepish smile with a visible excitement in her eyes. The next day I continued my compliments on her looks and told her that she should try some simple yoga exercises. She said she can give a try, but doesn’t have much time. So we decided to get up even. Right now, she had a class to teach, and, after school, play practice. That was more than enough to deal with today.It was lunchtime when Ted Brandywine approached her. He was one of the few men she’d met who seemed not to become tongue tied around her. It was disconcerting talking to him, though. He didn’t stare at her breasts, but he also had a tendency to look past her while he was talking to her.“I saw Bobby this morning,” he said, without preamble. “He said he’d be happy to talk to you.