The office door is shut and muffling the words but the angry tones and loud voices can be heard through the whole building. Stopping to stand beside M...ike waiting near the desk of the secretary of the Academic Counselling Unit Mo asks, “What’s up, Mike?”Mike turns to him and says, “Three of the basketball team are about to drop out due to not meeting academic standards and Ellen blames housing for the problem. The manager of the housing section is telling Ellen it isn’t her fault.” Mo gives a. I graduated from law school this past May”Just then it started to sprinkle“Hey if you need some shelter I have reservations at the resort in town”“Thanks” she smiled“Hey I don’t expect anything. I know a guy involved in the planning team so I make reservations at the nice resorts at each town”“How nice” she smiled againWe kept conversing and I felt like she was at least warming to meAs we got close to the serving table it started pouring“Hey, serious, do you want to stay in a hotel”I started. You pull on the skirt to try to cover your exposed stocking, but the skirt it too tight and do not move. Just then you see the lights of a car turn on. You walk over to it and see that it is the stranger in the bar. By now you just want to get out of sight, so you open the passenger door and jump in???You decided to come then?, He says.?Just get me out of here please?.?As you wish?The car moves away from the lot and into the night. You wait for your heart to slow down as you think about what. Like I said earlier, in the city, not much moved at night. Here, in the arsehole of nowhere, there was fuck-all cubed. Most of the patrols, that had held my attention earlier, had withdrawn from the ground, so there were very few messages to log. All that was left was the nocturnal animals. Their snuffling and quiet rustling was all there was to distract our attention.The game became one of trying to gauge their position by their noise and lying so quietly that they would approach us. Sometimes.
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