It took him no longer than Julie to learn that the less time he spent at home, the better. Being naturally gregarious, his friends' parents tended to ...see him more than did his own. Typically, Terry would stay at the school library for the relatively short time it took him to complete his daily homework. Then, he would meet one or more friends and hang out.Terry had reached 6'3" by his junior year. He was slim but not skinny, and undeniably handsome. Exercise, both running and weightlifting, had. I said I'd do my normal weekly launderette trip during the day, and looked forward to seeing her then.I kissed her goodbye, and set off for my lecture, in a very much happier frame of mind.On Thursday, I bought a couple of bottles of Mateus Rose (I told you those were the dark days, didn't I?) on my way round to their flat. It was cheap, drinkable, and went with most food; I also took them a couple of loaves of bread and three cartons of milk that I'd picked up cheap just before the supermarket. Of course my little head was screaming yes, so I said I did. She texted me an address, and it was in an apartment complex close to downtown. I had not been in that area for years, since an Asian group lost their apartment.I went to the upper floor in a new building, rang the buzzer, and the door opened. The Clue Bird shit on me with a vengeance. She was a middle aged (45-55 years old), Caucasian with a florid complexion and very light red-brown-blond hair with gray strands s**ttered through.. He put a kettle of water on to boil for tea, and went on a shortvoyage of exploration. There was no refrigerator, of course; but there was alarge, cool larder and an astonishly large selection of tinned food, and evensix bottles of good quality Scotch in a cardboard box on a shelf. Feelingconsiderably more cheerful, he found tea -- leaf, not bagged -- sugar andtinned milk and hurried out to the boiling kettle. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????'The Secret.'? Carlo spent.