After dinner, I started on the first computer assignment for the compiler class, even though it wasn’t due for a couple of weeks.Wednesday seemed to... fly by and at 2:30pm I was sitting in the room where the disciplinary committee was meeting, waiting for Callie’s hearing to start. She arrived a few minutes after I did, with a very sharply dressed man with a leather briefcase. I immediately pegged him as a lawyer and he sat just to Callie’s right. Five minutes later, the hearing was called to. Of all the scenarios I imagined forMarina's card, none was as unusual as this. The bar code and loginconcerned me too. Merely scanning it into my smartphone would take aleap of faith. But my wall clock showed 8:52 and both cards had become abit paler already. If I wanted to see Marina again I had almost no timeto waste. Moving rapidly, I took a picture of the cards with my phone,planning to keep the login if it faded away too quickly. But the imagefrom my camera contained only two blank. The suitcases, sitting ajar on the floor, made me sure that if I looked in the closet, I would find only a few empty hangers, instead of the brilliant, eccentric, and perfect clothing that had hung there before."I'm packed, ' she said, shrugging, as if that small accomplishment might count as an answer."I meant for the party."She sighed. "There's no being ready for that." She stood, and crossed the empty space that had stretched between us. She took me in her arms, but held me away far enough. Once her parents left, Izzy and I enjoyed a meal of pizza and chips and settled down to watch a couple of movies. Then we talked about college, friends and life in general. Neither of us made a move on each other. Then it came to bedtime, we were to sleep in separate rooms. Izzy gave me a kiss on the lips and our tongues made a slight contact. She then indicated that for now that was as far as she was willing to go. She needed to be sure it was love before she slept with me. I made my way to.