"Yeah, thatcould do it. Better that than going the other way, huh?" Oh, yeah. I'm sort of proud of her for disliking me." Amanda smiledruefully.***Phi...l got to the top of the escalator and took in the scene with wonderand more than a little apprehension. Crowds of people not all dressedalike still made him nervous.All around him people bustled doing things no one had told them to do.To his left, more people queued up to buy tickets for the last matineeof the afternoon at the multiplex theater.. "Son, if you don't STOP calling me Mr. Crane, I'm going to bat your brains all over this yard. My mother named me Jeremy, and I am so sick of being called Sir and Mr. I'd like to crown the next person that does so, starting with you. You hear me?" Yes sir, I do," I said dead pan, getting a laugh and breaking the tension.It started to cool off and get dark, so Sherrie asked me to join them inside for a piece of homemade apple pie she'd baked the night before. Who was I to deny myself such. ' His eye turned towards me,staring at my face, my body, and then back again at my face. Slowly,realisation dawned.'You fucking shit!' he shouted, struggling upright, his hands clenchinginto fists.I stepped back, nervously, and suddenly there were seven laughing girlsbetween us.'Oh dear, Ivor. I really don't think you can afford to start a fight.Think how it would look in court, when they were told you physicallyattacked an employee after you'd coerced them into having homosexual sexwith. We showered together and that led us back to the bed for another session of doggie sex. I dressed, kissed him goodbye and then headed back for my own room. I passed several people in the hallway and I wondered if looked to them like the slut I had spent the night being.It wasn't until I was in my room and looking at myself in the mirror that I realized that in my passion I had totally forgotten that I was unprotected.And now I was having to pay the price for that bit of stupidity.I did love Rob.