It was a quick task. He was very nervous and so there was no delay. Once on, he was out from behind the Bush and jogging on the other side of the stre...et in no time. He actually picked up the pace and sprinted past his neighbors' houses until he reached the corner. At that point he slowed back down to a jog as he turned right toward the high school where they had walked just two nights earlier.As he ran now his thoughts overwhelmed him. Everything had been amazing. His world was now completely. Goodbye.’ Giving me barely enough time to say my own goodbye, she hung up. I tried to return to my computer but couldn’t concentrate. SHE had agreed to meet me. I booked a table at the Floating Lotus and returned to my PC. After a fruitless hour I admitted defeat and headed for home. Thankfully my secretary was not at her desk, so I left her a quick note and walked to the main doors. Dani was by the electrical cupboard behind her desk in deep conversation with a workman, whose overalls. I didn’t trust it. I couldn’t trust it. ‘Why did you come back?’ I threw a question back at her. My small suitcase was accepting the punishment I should have been inflicting on her. ‘Because I’m messed up,’ Amber said and then looked away toward the curtained windows,’I ran because I couldn’t stay. I came back because I couldn’t leave.’ I slammed my dirty pants into the suitcase. Poor thing, it was a cheap discount suitcase and never did anything to warrant such abuse. I almost let a string. Saturday ran its normal course, till together they trotted off to the club, here they sat as usual with George and Lina, and for the first hour there was no sign of Terry, however Lina, asked a lot of pointed questions about the younger man, which Nan fielded with non-commital answers, saying that she had known him a while, and he was a great dancer! George announced it was his 60th birthday on Monday and tonight he was going to celebrate to celebrate by buying the first round! Just then Terry.