We kind of stared at each otherfor a brief moment and than we both looked away, shyly. I asked hisname."It's Jackie" he said in a slightly higher tha...n normal voice. "God, PVC is beautiful, but expensive isn't it?" "I think it will be OK, I said back." I already knew I was buying thiskid an outfit today. I wanted to give him what the clerk in my collegeyears had given me. There was something which made me crazy aboutencouraging this young man to dress. He was going to be so sexy. "Let's. "noooooo!" Each no was sterner than the last as if I might take notice of the sternest! He was beside me on the couch now. His face became less attractive by the second because of his surprisingly charmless personality. I much preferred those encounters where a person becomes more attractive as their beautiful personality unfolds, but alas, it is what it is, I told myself and smiled the most un-genuine smile I've ever smiled in his direction. It was quite convincing! He liked it! "You look soo. I threw the quilt off of me and got out of bed, immediately beginning to pace as soon as my feet hit the floor. Should I go out to the Lodge tonight? Would he be there? Would I be able to talk to him alone? What would I say? I want you? I need you? How do I go about this? What about my family? They thought I was sick. They’d be watching my every move. I decided to take a shower while trying to collect the screaming thoughts whirling around in my head. Going to the Lodge wouldn’t be a good idea.. I don't know why, but he had a familiar look about him, so I answered back "Yes". "You don't remember me, do you?" he then asked. I studied him for a moment, still not sure, "Carla's graduation party" he then added and in a few seconds more, I stared amazed as I finally remembered who he was. "Tony" I said and looking at him I remembered the occasion. "It's me!" he replied. My mind flashed back a few years as I remembered meeting him at his daughter's graduation party and we hit it off,.