"Way'ta go Elliot," I told him."I didn't know this was going to happen," he returned. I took a deepbreath, and slowly walked over to Kelley. I placed ...a hand on his shoulder,and quickly he shrugged it off, getting up, and moving towards the door."Look at me," said Kelley, "I'm crying like some little girl." He slowlywiped the tears from his eyes. "It's just that..." Slowly tears began tobuild up behind his eyes again, and slowly the flood came forth. "God damnit, this sucks." She raced. .." I began."Rick," she interrupted. "If you don't like me that way, you just have to tell me. But I know that's not what you're going to say. I know because of what I feel from you, and you know what you feel from me. So don't you dare throw this away just because we found each other in the middle of the craziest thing to ever happen in all of recorded history. Don't you dare walk away from this to protect me. Don't you dare." I..." I tried again."And another thing," she bore on relentlessly.. Maybe next time. Anyway, 60 seconds at the hotel counter, key card in my hand and I was in the elevator. The room was nice, it even had a hot tub. Windows that wrapped around since it was a corner room, a pretty good view of the hills in the distance although looking down all I could see was roof tops and some cars and people down below. Huge curtains, they slid back and forth by remote control, the TV was in a cabinet at the foot of the bed. More buttons to run that, there was a horseshoe. Football team wants you too while I think about it.’ He paused a second. ‘Except for Brady. He’s the only one of us that doesn’t talk about you when locker room chat on Erin Carlisle gets raunchy. But I can see the fire starting to build in those beautiful green eyes of yours, so before you scratch me like the little heated kitten you are, let me show you what I brought you.’ With that, Jeffery whipped out a few books from out of his expensive leather jacket. Erin’s squinted eyes opened wide.