'Fuckingggggg Hellllll Mariel', his long drawn exclamation, breathed heavily under his breath, told me he was seeing what I intended, I smiled to myse...lf, looking out the window, 'Remind me to buy you sexy underwear, for your fifteenth birthday Mariel, I turned and looked across at him, bathed in sunlight, I smiled demurely, 'No need Uncle Joe, I prefer to be naked around you', then I added to his original question, 'Yes I do know some horny girls, remember, all my friends are of bleeding age,. I remember how worried I was when you were late home, the first time I tried to ring and you phone rang then went to voicemail, I thought you were driving, unable to answer. Half hour later when I tried to call you again, your phone just went straight to voicemail. Dinner was ruined by the time you were two hours late, I was frantic, I called your parents, your sister, the police and all the local hospitals, all our friends. No one knew where you were, or could be. It was just before ten when. . a kiss? Was that right? It was an alien sensation, simply the act of contact with another human being. Throughout his life, the vast majority of the times when he touched someone, it was during sparing. Wait, was that really true? He searched his memories, trying to find the last time he had experienced anything like this.At that moment, it was like a giant pit had opened up in his chest, carved out by the realization that almost all the contact he had with other people was when he was. "During the last couple of years of high school, I worked part time in the closest McDonalds, riding my bike to and from work. This cut further into the limited study time. Even when I finished school, I continued there for a while until I was able to get a part time job as a waitress in a restaurant in the next suburb. That meant that I was working Wednesday to Saturday nights, but I hated riding home in the dark. Unfortunately, there wasn't much option as there were virtually no buses and I.