Punching her arm, I slap on my brightest smile. ‘Dude, it’s me. No worries. If doing New York by myself didn’t scare the living daylights out of... me, Europe’s going to be a piece of cake.’ ‘True,’ she nods sagely before pulling me in for a final fierce hug. Ivan and Zora nod there head at me when Em finally steps aware. If they were any warmer I’d be in hell. My eye roll is suppressed by sheer force of will as Joanna and Zayne approach and shake my hand. ‘It was great having you in class,. Oh, by the way, my name is Charlotte. You know, in case you wanted to know,” she looks at me with a smile again. “Mine is Sally, it’s a pleasure to meet you Charlotte. I love your name.” I feel like a school girl, unsure what to say. I blush deeply. We’re both stepping off the bus now, knowing we part ways, I see her reach out to shake my hand. I take hers, feeling the beautiful smoothness of her skin, it makes me shiver, wanting to feel more of her. When she lets go, I want to grip her. Naked. She leaned on the edge of the sink, looking down at the tiled floor and sighing deeply. Once she had gathered herself together, she lifted herself up and opened the en-suite door into the bedroom. Just as she had thought, he lay under the duvet on his side. She walked towards the bed and lifting the cover, slid her body under it next to his. She brushed her long dark hair behind her ear and snuggled up close. He turned over onto his back and looked at her. ‘Do you want to do anything. I couldn't find anything interesting on TV, so I started readingthrough a pile of manga comic books Cori said I could borrow. I'd nevergiven manga a second look up until then, assuming all comic books werejust about superheroes fighting supervillains, which got old pretty fastafter a while. I felt like I could really connect better with the characters I wasreading about in Cori's manga collection. There were still heroes andvillains in some of them and lots of them had magic and things you.