“I can’t wait to be in Chicago with you,” she whispered as we cuddled together afterwards.“That’s going to be complicated, but we’ll make ...it work,” I said.We got out of bed then showered again, dried off, and dressed. I lit the lavender candle in my room to remove any scent that might give us away. We went down to the kitchen and got a couple of Cokes and sat at the table to drink them. When we finished them, I went upstairs and blew out the candle, and we left to head back to my parents’. This made us closer from acquaintances to friends. We used to walk out for food and sometimes at midnight for Ice-Cream, which resulted in deep conversations.After a couple of months, I started accompanying Celina on weekends. So I assured she didn’t have a boyfriend. I was getting more and more attached to her. But I was unsure whether it was love or lust? My mind was confused as she was behaving as a close friend.But one day all such confusions were cleared when we were on a trip to Universal. Campbell fell to the ground as he had planned, but hit her head on the way down with the desk. She didn’t sustain grave injuries, but no one in the class wanted to take blame for that joke. They all pointed fingers to Chris, and so he was expelled, and his family ashamed of his behaviour.His family, not wanting to take much blame either for having a troublemaker son, sent him to a further away High School next year, so that he could finally finish Grade 12 and do something with his life.The. , and finally right into the driveway. The last few turns of my daily commute still felt automatic even though it was a few hours later and quite a bit darker than normal. With deadlines looming at work, I would be staying late every day this week. Stepping out of the car and grabbing my backpack from the backseat, I hoped that my wife, Amanda, was already cooking dinner. A fantasy of opening the door to find my beautiful wife cooking dinner wearing nothing but an apron and a thong flashed.