One Friday evening we were lounging on the couch watching a movie. Charlie was on the end, Shaina was in the middle and I was at the other end of the ...couch covered in a blanket. About halfway through the movie, Shaina yawned and announced that she was going to bed. Charlie said that he wasn’t tired yet and he’d come kiss her after the movie was over. She said okay, kissed him, blew me a kiss and then headed off to bed. Charlie and I turned our attention back to the movie and when we did, we. * * * As it happens we met once again, many years later. Coming out of the coffee bar in the railway station with a beaker of coffee to go, I bumped into Jane. Heading for the same train. With half an hour to her stop, we sat facing each other over the narrow table, knees touching briefly, pulling apart, and then returning to companionable intimacy. I knew at once that in a way nothing had changed. I knew how she would speak. I felt my throat swell, could not hold back a smile of joy. She. Within a minute or so Tania’s red Mondeo pulled around the corner. Tania was smiling at me and nodded for me to get back in the car. I walked over and again lent in the window “Your not going top believe this but I’ve got a punter lined up. He wants a blowjob and I’ve agreed. What do you think? Should I go?” I thought at first that Tania would be mad at me. “Only a blowjob?” “Yes that’s all I promise” Okay then but I’m going to follow you. I went back to the punter and got in the car. “Where. “Talk to her; she’ll likely recommend you.”“I hate to think about what happens if she ever leaves,” Jeannette said. “She’s the most pro-student member of the faculty!”“We hope Milena stays here,” I said. “She’s following in her mother’s footsteps.”“We’re all going to be gone in three years,” Sarah said. “It’s somebody else’s problem at that point!”“That’s a really bad way to look at it,” Melody declared. “We want to leave the school in better shape than we found it, and ensure students who come.