As soon as they returned from Europe, Wendy would either move back in with Amy or with her parents and would continue with her studies. Their impendin...g separation heightened the feelings they had for each other at the moment. ———- Wendy and Burnside knew that there had to be a final act of closure in their relationship, a final acknowledgement from both of them that their relationship truly had become one of two equal partners. On the last full day of their trip the two women toured Berlin. She stopped at the end of the shadow of the oak, keeping herself bathed in darkness. She raised a delicate hand to me, an offer. To join her in the shadows,I hadn’t much to lose, so I reached up, took a breathe closed my eyes and took her hand, the next time I opened my eyes, I'm hand in hand with the girl, we are running though the field, giggling, smiling. She stops and sits of the ground, then rolled on her side, head resting in her hand, watching me. I stop and look down at her with a. Joel..." Tule said, by way of introduction. "Come on now, sweetie," he added... "Don't be cold with us. You heard what Sam said... we're all in this thing together... so to speak... Friends. Share and share alike!"Joel's fingers were running along the soft inside of her thigh and Tule now held her fast around the arms. He took playful nibbles at her neck and his head was going lower. She struggled, trying to get away but all she succeeded in doing was to allow Joel's fingers access to her naked. Trying to ignore myfears about what they were all saying out there about me, I talked tomyself. You are a sissy and you might as well enjoy it. How bad can itget?How bad? I could not have imagined how far Donna would go with it evenas I stood there holding my lipstick like so many women before me haddone at the door to the ladies', nor could I know that walking throughthat pretty Mademoiselles door at that moment instead of invokingWellington's victory would take me through a door not only.