Don't Fall In Love

ART: "Growing Passion" By Laurie Cooper

/Was it something in her eyes
that caught you by surprise?
There goes your heart..
you've been down this road before..
don't travel it anymore..
don't fall in love./

/When she laughs, she makes you feel
like all of your fantasies are real..
better check your heart..
remember what you used to say
love is a game that you never play.
why fall in love?/

/Where is the man who could always beat the odds?
where is the man who always rolled the perfect seven?
is he a boy again, about to lose his way?
convinced he's tasted a slice of heaven?/

/You Laugh and say-That guy is dead
he's using his heart instead
you'll lose this game.
I don't understand you at all, you swore you'd never fall
don't fall in love.../

/Where is the man who could always beat the odds?
where is my man who always rolled the perfect seven?
is he a boy again about to lose his way?
convinced he's taken a glimpse at Heaven..?/

/So I guess you've made up your mind
to leave your past behind..
but I'm not mad at you and your heart...
I guess true love has made you see...
It's time to set your heart free...
you've fallen in love.../

/true love has made you see,
it's so easy to just be free....
you've fallen in love./

Left Hand, Third Finger

Six Months Later, Josie's Bar...A Saturday afternoon.....

Cock Robbins sat in a booth in Josie's bar, holding court....Kevin and Clerow sat opposite him, while the Lawyer Conrad and his friend and sometime client Sean sat beside him.. He was in a very jubilant mood. He bought drinks for everyone in the booth... a first for him...and was regaling the guys about how well his Semi-Pro team was doing...They were five and three, but he had high hopes of them moving up in the ranks and making the playoffs. For once he wasn't bragging about his exploits, but about his "boys"...He talked on and on about his students at the
local high school...He had gotten his certification and was teaching in the Philadelphia school system. Between his teaching and his coaching, he had made enough money to buy himself a nice home. He had traded his used car in and had bought himself a new car , the type his girlfriends had often allowed him him to" hold.."He had become a new man, and what's more..he had reached out and gotten something he had seldom had before...male friends. Kevin had forgiven him after much prodding from Clerow. (Sepia hadn't, but that was another story...) and Sean and Conrad had got to know him through Kevin. He and Vanessa had watched Clerow and Cora Beth's baby, giving them time to go out on the town a few nights and He and Vanessa had enjoyed one of Mabel's home cooked meals over at Mabel's house with her man. He had even gotten to know, Blake and Paris and they had come to a few of his team's football games. When
he wasn't with the guys..He and his mentor Slim would sit and drink gin and talk about his days of semi-pro football playing with Slim's friend, Deacon Larry Weatherford. The Deacon's new wife, the former Victoria Struthers would often serve them dinner.. He was feeling really good right about now, with his new life and his new friends.

'Clerow my man, I want to thank you
for letting me live in your rental home
until I got my new home..can't thank you
enough man..and you are welcome to come
over my place when Ness and I get it set up
anytime you want...In fact...I'm gon have a
house warming party.." laughed Cock Robbins.

'Aw man, it wasn't no thing...Glad I could be of some help." said Clerow graciously.

While Cock was sitting in the booth laughing it up, A brown skinned ,buxum young woman with a
blond weave and way too much make up was staring at him..She liked what she saw...and she wanted a peice of the action...She told Gus the bartender to send a drink over to the booth to him. Then she gingerly opened her blouse a bit...and applied more lip gloss. Her name was "Honey" Brown and she had had her share of guys at Josie's Bar...In fact they had a nickname for her. "Two O'Clock" ,because at two am, you could bet that she was leaving with someone.

"Hey Cock...the lady over there in
the yellow dress and the red pumps
just sent you a drink" he said as he turned
a shot glass upside down and placed it in front
of Cock.

Everyone stared at Cock to see what he would do next...He weakly smiled her way, and took the
shot glass and raised it to her as if in a mock toast...She opened her blouse a little more to show her cleavage and the lacy black bra she was wearing..Cock stared at her and he blushed a little and then gave her a sheepish grin....but that was about the extent of it..He continued to talk to the guys. They all knew that Honey Brown had him in her sights..They all collectively wondered
what Cock's next move would be.


"Man, I can't believe that you're married."
laughed Kevin.

"You know something Kev, I can't believe it
myself..it's been six months now...We met
on a boat in Jamaica and we haven't left each
other's sight since we got back.."

"And you been straight? No other women?
asked Kevin...

"Aww come on man, give him a break" said
Clerow..

"Nah, I gotta know.." asked Kevin ,still laughing.

"Yeah man, I been straight ,I aint looked at another woman."
said Cock.

Kevin, Clerow, Sean and Conrad and even Gus looked at him side eyed......

"Okay, I looked...I'm only human,
but I haven't cheated...I don't even
flirt wit women." said Cock.

'She must be a very special lady"
said Conrad.

"She is...but I had a lot of very special
ladies...it wasn't them...it was me..I'm
different now...I aint that guy no more
that I used to be.." He said.

Gus came over with a peice of paper..It had perfume on it and a phone number...Cock looked over at the woman and she had opened her blouse all the way, giving him (and everybody else) a complete view of the goods.

'Cock..that fool girl is gon throw
her draws over here in a second if you
don't make a move.." laughed Gus.

"Tell her I'm married man." said Cock.

"You Tell her yourself player, she coming
this way." laughed Gus....

"Handle your business bruh, we out." said
Kevin , who was leaving with Clerow.

"It's never good to be the third and fourth wheel
,ya know." said Conrad and Sean as they got up.

Cock sat there in the booth alone as the woman walked over to his table...He placed his left hand squarely on the counter so she could see the gold band on his third finger from the thumb,
yet before the pinkie..

"Oh.....so you married huh" she smirked..

"Yupper" said Cock, something he would have
never told a woman like this before.

'But do you love her?" she asked.

"Apparently ,I do..." He said. Annoyed that she would ask a question like that. Another first for him.

"Well, hmmph...that's nice..I was beginning
to think you was gay." she said..

"Nope...not Gay.." he replied, now totally annoyed and totally turned off by this woman.

"Well if you ever are not married or if you
want to try a little somethin different,
you have my number...my name is Honey,
Honey Brown.." she said as she sauntered away.

Cock paid his tab and walked out of the bar ,alone...He tossed the number in the trash can outside and walked to his car. He drove off....He had come full circle...He felt full now...and not empty like before... He walked down his block and he saw Vanessa , standing in the doorway...

"What are you doing up?" He asked her..

"Getting some fresh air.." she said.

"No you wasn't, you was up waitin
for me..." He laughed...

"I could've been waiting for my secret lover
for all you know." she said..

"Fat chance of that.." he laughed..

She was wearing some white capri pants and an aqua blouse...It reminded him of Jamaica...He knew that she knew that....

"Well let's go in and maybe I'll
persuade you to leave him for me."
said Cock...

"You think I'll need much persuadin
Mistah Cockraine..?" she mock asked..

"Nah...after about five minutes with
me, your mind will be pretty much made
up Mrs. Robbins.." He said, liking the
way that sounded..

She laughed and ran inside..He charged after her, forgetting that the door was unlocked...Not
really caring.

*************************************

"Every Saint has a past and Every Sinner has a future."

One More For The Road

ART: "For Your Eyes Only" By Gerald Ivey

At the Bar Vanessa ordered Grey Goose Vodka with cranberry juice.... Cock Robbins ordered a simple Ginger Ale...He was serious about not drinking anymore tonight...He also ordered a glass
of water with ice...He was feeling nice and mellow...He looked over at Vanessa and smiled at her.His warm smile seemed to make her at ease...

"I have a confession to make...
the other day you asked me if
I had a brother named Leon and I
told you that I didn't..well that was
true..Leon Cantrell was my husband." she said.

"You're husband?" asked Cock.

"We were seperated at the time of his death.
Leon was a ne'er do well..We were married
for ten years...and I basically supported him...
He worked on and off, but he was always hanging
around shady people, always involved in some get
rich quick scam or something...I had to let him go
and move on with my life." she explained.

"Did you know that your husband was with a
group of people who were trying to blackmail
me?" asked Cock.

"Blackmail you? What did you do?" she asked.

"I cheated on my wife...many times...that's why
I don't have a wife now... I probably deserved
what they did to me...They sent her a DVD with
film footage of all my many misdeeds on it...She
divorced me as well she should have...I'm not trying
to be that guy anymore..I didn't have anything to do
with your husband's death, but I'm not sorry he's dead."
said Cock dryly.

"Like I said...He was always into some shady stuff,
He would've taken me down with him...it's a small
world isn't it Cock?" she laughed.

"Sure is..." He sighed...

'Wow...I'm glad I got to see you again Cock.."
she said...

"I am too..I thought that maybe I came on a
little too strong the other night on the ship
and if I did..I'm really sorry..but-"

"Shussh Cock...you're talking a little too much,
it's late and it's hard to find a cab this time of
night...you were going to show me that room
of yours.." she laughed, winking at him..

"CHECK Puh-lease..." He said.

Once back in his room they tore into each other...He placed his hand on her chest so he could feel her heartbeat..it was beating very fast..He felt her breasts...he sighed and began working her bra
off, as well as her low cut blouse...at the same time she eased the zipper of his trousers down and began caressing his penis...They began deeply kissing one another very slowly...There was no rush, they were safely inside his room with the curtains drawn...they could take their time this time...He lifted her up, which made her sigh loudly and lay her softly on his bed....he stepped out
of his trousers and slipped his black wife beater t-shirt off...she wiggled out of her skirt and he bent over her casually slipping her panties off ....he began licking her breasts..softly ,gently and then trying to put them in his mouth as though he were eating a meal..she began to stroke him lightly and finnally their lips met and they kissed deeply and passionately....He slowly entered her, with her almost hardly knowing....she told herself that she didn't come here for this, but she knew that that was a lie...she knew that she had to have this experience again....He moved with a
deliberate slowness that was driving her wild...He was experiencing the same thing too...only he was trying not to show it...He just kept moving in a nice slow rhythm....This went on for an hour and a half...and then they changed positions...she sat on top of him and just moved in an up and down motion....He stared up at her lovely face and her long braids flying back and forth into her face...She was beautiful...and those eyes...those hazel eyes....he couldn't beleive it...He wanted to
take her from behind, but he couldn't move..he felt so good...He let out a yell that was heard down the hallway as he exploded ( A waiter dropped his plates of food upon hearing that yell )and she too let out a blood curdling yell as she herself experienced multiple orgasms (several people opened their room doors and peered out into the hallway)...she began to shake and tremble....and then collapse right on his chest....with sweat running down her face....She lay still for a moment,then she looked up at him.. He smiled at her.....

"Oh my God...that was soooo
sooo goood..." she said..

"Damn girl, you was off the
chain..." He replied.

They both roled over on their backs and stared at the ceiling...

"So what do we do for an encore?" she asked....

"I don't know...all I know is I have
to see you again." he said.

"You have my cell phone number,
before I leave here..I'm gonna
give you my e-mail and my home
phone number..." She said.

"Yeah..I'm gon give you mine too." He
offered...

"Because I leave tomorrow." She said.

"You do? I have one more day after that."
said Cock.

'One more day, to do what? Why don't you
come back with me..stay with me for that
extra day?" she asked..

"Better yet..why don't you stay with me....
my place aint as nice as yours probably,
but it's my place...I've never had anybody
stay with me before." he said.

"Okay, deal...I don't care about your place
or mine...just as long as you're in it." she
said...

'So I guess we'll be having breakfast in the
morning huh?" He asked...

"How do you like your pancakes daddy?"
she giggled...

Something was telling Cock he was into somethin good...

(Conclusion tomorrow)

Duck and Cover Your Heart

Kingston, Jamaica

He certainly enjoyed himself in Jamaica....He enjoyed the sunny beaches...He played limbo with the young kids, he ate at some pretty fine restaraunts and he went swimming in the beautiful ocean every morning. He had fun and he did all of this alone. He hadn't heard from Vanessa in four days..He called her cell phone...but she never answered...He found the villa where she was staying, but he always got there after she had gone..He called her room and he left several messages for her...all unanswered. He had never before chased a woman...he never had to, so this was new for him. Maybe , he thought ,he had offended her being all sexual and everything..maybe she thought he was garrish. He had never before thought ,nor cared what any woman thought of him...until now...but even in caring, he had done all he could do..He hoped
that he would see her again.

In another part of Kingston, Vanessa Cantrell wondered what had come over her...She couldn't stop thinking about Cockraine Robbins....She couldn't stop talking about him either...She called her girlfriend in Philly and told her what she had done....Her girlfriend couldn't believe it....She
couldn't believe it herself...Sleeping with a man on the first date?? Not really a date, after just meeting him!!!! That was so not her..She had made guys wait for up to six months before even getting a kiss, let alone doing anything else....and since her husband's murder had only been on
two dates and only one of those men got to see the inside of her bedroom. She told her girlfriend how huge and well endowed he was...."never seen anything like it." she exclaimed and how good it was...and how she had to get him off of her mind...she just couldn't see him again..Her girlfriend had asked her why not..Had told her that what happens in Jamaica stays in Jamaica.
She said that that would all be fine and well if he lived in Jamaica or somewhere else, but he lived
in Philly..With that her girlfriend laughed and asked her if she could have his number..she certainly wouldn't have felt guilty. They laughed and laughed about that...That was when she made her mind up...crazy as it sounded...she was going to go and find Cock Robbins....

Cock ,for his part was living it up...He went to a Jazz festival, fell in with some locals afterwords and got into a rousing card game, where he told tall tales of playing Semi-Pro Football back in the states and rubbing shoulders with Donavan McNabb, Peyton Manning, Brian Westbrook, Tom Brady, T.O. Eli Manning and Brett Farve..They laughed and drank all night long..Cock hadn't felt this good in a long time...Here, nobody knew him and he could be or not be anyone he wanted...It was nice being thought of as a nice guy for a change and not a jerk...He could get used to this he thought and smiled as he walked back to the hotel he was staying in...He couldn't get
Vanessa off of his mind though...he had hunted her for days and now he only had two more days
left...To his surprise..when he entered his hotel lobby...his prey had found him!!!!

"Well hello stranger....where have you
been hiding?" He said with a smile , surprisingly
very glad to see her.

"Hiding from you." she said...

"I thought as much.." He said

"No Cock, you've got me all wrong,
let's go in that bar over there." she said.

"No...I think I've had quite enough to
drink tonight...how bout we go to my room??
Uh... just to talk...really?" He said.

"If I go up to your room, it won't be just
to talk." she said rather coyly...

"Okay..Okay...then let's go to the bar
then..I can have a soda...and I'll get
you whatever you want, but really...
I can't have another drink tonight."
He said.

Vanessa was impressed...Most guys she knew , would have still been trying to talk her into their
room and they definitely would have been drinking...but this man not only didn't try to force the matter, he actually didn't want to drink...Hmmmm or maybe it was a trick....She just didn't know...She had been married so long, she just didn't know the dating game anymore... She meekly followed Cock into the hotel bar..they had things to talk about, though she had to admit... She really wanted him to talk her into going up to his room...it wouldn't have taken much convincing.

(To be continued............)

Aquabooty

ART: "Interlock" By Wak

Miami, Florida.....Cock Robbins had at least a month before he began coaching for the semi pro football team and so with what little money he had saved up, he decided to go on a cruise. He had booked the cruise on line a few weeks before. He just had to get away...away from Philadelphia, away from everything he knew...He had hoped that the cruise would help him feel better before he began his new job. He stood on the deck of the ship ,looking at the beautiful see through blue waters and taking in the night air and thinking....He hadn't been much of a deep thinker for most of his life, so this was new to him. He thought about his ex-wife , Veronica....She may have been the only woman he truly ever loved and he had cheated on her with a passion. Not because he didn't love her, but simply because he could and he thought that as a pro or semi pro athlete, that is what was expected of him. Even before Sepia, there was Opal..there was Gail, then Sepia's mother, Jean Cokely.......Jean was in prison, serving 25 years - life for masterminding a series of murders...murders that largely wouldn't have happened if it had not been for his vanity...He felt bad about that... Then there was Laura...also dead....but not by his hand...a jealous spurned wife had killed her for being a female version of him...an adulterer... That's what got him to thinking....This could be how he ended up if he didn't re-evaluate himself and change.
He thought about his Father....a man who cheated on his mother without shame or mixed emotion and who even took him with him to his mistresses homes when he went, so he would have an alibi....His Father had gone mad in his last days and had ended his life in an asylum...
He didn't like to think about this... He needed a drink a strong drink.

"Thinkin bout jumpin?" came the soft voice.

"No...uh, welllll hellllooo..." He said in pure mack mode.

She was gorgeous, "built like a ship" His father would have said.. A brown skinned buxom black
woman with the most beautiful hazel colored eyes he had ever seen.. She was wearing a black party dress, with a red belt and matching red spike heels... She had shapely legs, just like he liked and a friendly face..He sized her up and figured that he could have her in his cabin by midnight...but something about her...something about him now, made him just not want to play that game anymore.

"Ummm, no..I was just standin out here, lookin
at the water and thinkin.." He said..
"Hi..My name is Cockraine Robbins...I used to
play Semi-Pro Football...now I'm about to begin
coaching.." He said.

"Oh really? I don't know much about Football,
but I'll take your word for it if you say so...
My name is Vanessa...Vanessa Cantrell..I'm an
Investment banker from Philly." she said.

"Oh yeah..I live in Philly too...uh ,you didn't have
a brother named Leon did you?" He asked...

" Leon...No I'm afraid not...I have a sister and that's
it..and she lives in Montreal..." She said..

They talked on the deck for about an hour and then they retreated to the bar...He couldn't believe how easy the conversation was...He wasn't pretending or lying for once..He was just being himself...He wasn't even trying to get in her pants...and for him that was something new.
Not that he wasn't attracted to her, he was...but he just felt weary and tired of using the same old lines and deceitful little tricks..He just didn't seem to have it in him anymore. He at once felt
liberated and brand new.

"Listen....when we get to Kingston..I'm staying
in a little villa called the "Cotton Suites.." You
are welcome to visit me at anytime.." She said
as they left the bar laughing and a little high.

"Come here...walk me around the side of the
boat .." He said softly....I don't believe anyone is on
that side.."

"Ouuuuu, are you trying to be naughty?" she laughed.

"Vanessa...I'm madly attracted to you..and while normally
I would tell you something eloquent that would probably
be a lie...I just feel like getting all of that out of the way if
you know what I mean?" he said..

"I appreciate your honesty...to tell you the truth, I've had
my eye on you the moment you stepped on this ship.."
she said..

"Well then, let's cut the preliminaries.." he said....
not sounding much different from when he was
with the others ,yet feeling different.

He pulled his zipper down and revealed to Vanessa what all the others had known and what despite him being a total jerk had kept them around much longer than they normally would had it of been anyone else with any less endowment.
Upon seeing his massive erection, Vanessa's eyes bulged and in her mind she was saying- "My lorddd he's huge..." but her mouth betrayed what she actually thought and she regained her composure and simply said-

"Cockraine...why are you....sh-showing me this?"

"I thought you'd like to see it." he said, again hating
himself for going back to his old mack mode ways..

"Well I've seen it..and I'm...I'm impressed, but we
can't get into that out here on this deck...besides...
I don't even know you like that..I-I-I...oh what the
hell, have you got a condom at least?" she asked..

"Thought you'd never ask..I always come prepared."
He laughed...

He took his massive hands (hand that always seemed to drop a football but could slip a girl's panties off with accurate prescision) and slipped her matching red thong off...He lifted her up in
the air...something that caused her to sigh and to breathe faster, then tremble...and he slowly entered her...She squealed loudly...He shushed her and he began thrusting gently and then slowly...They of course could have been caught, but he didn't care..she didn't either...she felt strange because she had never done this before...not this fast and never never on a first date...Hell, this wasn't technically a date...She had just met this man only a few hours before. She was enjoying this too much..She would feel guilty about it in the morning. As for Cock Robbins..he hadn't felt this way since his wedding night with Veronica...He had had many women, but it had all been routine(at least to him...maybe it had meant more to them.) This was a rare time when he was enthralled..He felt better than he had in a long time...and when he came...it was loud and intense and like a five alarm fire.....Vanessa came several times..something she had never done before in her life and it had been so intense, that she was afraid...Who the hell is this guy? she thought..this is too good. She had made up her mind right then and there that she never wanted to see Cock Robbins again.

(To be continued.....)

Walk Like a Man

ART: "2 Tight" By Wak

"Well Cock..I put it to ya
like this...You are thirty four
years old...You been bouncin around
on these semi-pro teams for years now.
Truth is...if a pro team aint picked you up
by now, they ain gonna..you too old.
If They do pick you up, it's cause they desperate
for a body...and you'll get a little chicken shit ten
day contract at best." Said Slim Giliyard...a man
Cock respected above all.

"Slim ,what should I do? Football is all I know,
all my life I wanted to be in the NFL..and if I
can't do that, well then-" Cock stopped..He was
as close to crying as he'd ever been.

'Hey...Hey, don't you stand up here and cry like
a little bitch..straighten up...Walk like a man...
When life doesn't go the way you planned, change
up..plan somethin different...You know this game,
You know it well...If you can't play it..Then teach it."
snapped Slim.

"Yeah...Yeah...you got it Slim...I know the game,
and there's a head coaching slot open on the Mt.
Airy Marauders." said Cock.

"Mt. Airy what?" asked Slim.

"It's a Semi Pro team I once played for." said Cock.

" You always was a ten percent negro." laughed the
Old Man.

After that conversation...Cock Robbins had gone to the head office the next day in a very nice looking and conservative blue suit. (A suit Sepia's Mother, Jean Cokely had had tailor made for
him. One of seven suits.) He gave the management his resume and showed them some photos of
him with Donavan Mcnabb, Eli Manning, Tom Brady and other notables. None of these guys knew him from adam...He just managed to pose with them when they had a moment..To them he was no more than just a fan...but to the Management of this semi pro football team, Cock Robbins looked like Bill Parcells as far as they were concerned. They offered him the job. It would pay a measly 50k a year. I say measley because Cock Robbins dreamed big, he dreamed of making millions and having a big home in the country side and several fancy cars. Instead he
went to Clerow, who hardly knew him and wound up living in one of Clerow's rental homes.

He was used to driving Jean Cokely, Sepia, Laura Valley and Cinnamon's nice cars....Instead ,he
bought a 2003, Toyota Camry from Sonny Stein- "The man with the hole in his head" Used Car
lot. He felt good. For once, he had something that was his own...His own house ,rented though it was, his own car...not fancy, but at least his...and finnally a solid job that paid real money. He was
even taking some classes at community and pondering teaching school...He did have a degree, might as well use it.

He was a far cry from the big baller he always imagined himself...but for once in his life..he wasn't living off of a woman, wasn't using somebody...it felt good. Kevin still didn''t return his calls and maybe he understood why..but still he felt sad...he didn't have any real friends..none that were still alive anyway.

Cinnamon took note of the new Cock Robbins....She liked the fact that he was living on his own, had a steady job and his own ride...She had to admit...that she although she was damn near hooked on the loving...she didn't think much of him as a man....until now...His new attitude was making her hot just thinking about him.

One night she just happened to drop by...

"Hello Cock, how are you doing?"
she said coyly...

"Fancy seeing you , I didn't think
I'd ever see you again." He said.

"Why? We're not enemies...I just
..you know...I just..."

"Just got tired of me moochin,
I know....I got tired too..got tired
of myself...I had to change my life..
Had to walk like a man." said Cock.

"And what a man you have turned
into.." she smiled coyly...

Cock looked at her and smirked,then said-

"Cinnamon, let's cut the crap
get them clothes off and get over
here.."

He still was the same as he ever was with the women.. She walked over to him, smiling and pulled his sweat pants down....She felt the huge bulge in his speedos and remarked...

'Hmmm, somebody is glad to
see me...ouuuuu..."

He lifted her top off and he kneeled down on the floor...he began to lick a soft trail down her belly
button, kissing her skin gently and cupping her plump buttocks with his massive hands..he took
one hand and eased her jeans off...and then with her help, she eased out of her panties...He pushed her gently on his couch and she took his penis into her hands and began to gently massage it...The intensity on his face made him look downright evil to her...she took the tip of her tongue and and licked the head of his penis lightly and then began sucking harder, faster...
as though it would be her last time....Her own saliva began to trickle down her lips and on to her
hardening breasts...This went on for close to a half and hour and then he began to lean forward
and enter her...she didn't know if she could take all of him at first, but she did and he surprisingly was very slow and soothing and gentle with her...she began to moan softly and then louder and louder until she was begging him to move faster....but he wouldn't ,he cruelly kept at his same speed, teasing her until he could fell her contracting...breathing heavy and soft all at once and then screaming in ecstacy.....He felt himself losing control and slowly at first and then massively
contorting and trembling in his own orgasm.

She lie on her side looking at him...maybe she had misjudged him...He lay there with an empty feeling...the same empty feeling he had when he was through making love to Jean, Sepia, Opal,
Gail,Laura and all of the rest...He knew as he was lying there that he was missing something and
that maybe he had to get away to find it.

(To be continued........)