“Don't feel obligated, I'm just offering. You two are best friends, and you two haven't had dinner together at a table in awhile,” John said. “N...o, I want to. We just gotta finish studying,” I replied. “OK my ladies. I'll be cooking in the kitchen,” John said. Then he closed the door and went to the kitchen. “Well how have things been going with your boyfriend?” Jeanette asked. “Fine. The sex has been good, but we might break up. We don't know where the relationship is going I guess,” I replied.. I decided to walk the six blocks to my apartment. I was tired, but I lay in bed for hours thinking about Chastity, listening to the voices in my head arguing over calling her. Part of me wanted her back; the other was afraid to expose my wounded heart to another break. My thoughts swung like a pendulum from one side of the argument to the other. An old question came back. “Where did the love go?” It had troubled me constantly for months after Chastity left. Gallons of alcohol and a parade of. At the end of the month I found myself on a plane bound for Toronto. It would be a two, maybe three day trip. I would stay in a nice plush hotel which would be punctuated by meetings during the day and lonely meals during the night.I eventually boarded the plane to Toronto, sat back in the seat and simply waited until I got to the other end. My time was taken up with reading and some preparation for the meetings.A smile crossed my face as the thought of Sarah danced across my mind.Sarah and I. .. The American girl forced herself to remain optimisticabout her relationship- and her pending engagement, even as Paige'sincreasingly flighty behaviour sewed seeds of doubt in her mind.----------Natalie sighed as she dragged her tired body toward the dance studiowhere her lover worked, grinning as she saw the excited teenaged girlsleaving the modern building in their dark blue leotards."Hi honey, I'm home!" The Englishwoman laughed, greeting Zoe with agentle kiss."Bonsoir," Zoe giggled. "How.