It is a Wednesday; he knows she will be around until sometime near six.It is a Wednesday; he knows she will be around until sometime near six. His friends notice his distraction, but when questioned, he only laughs and says to them that he is working on a new project in his mind. The afternoon wears on; soon there are only a dozen or so people around the lounge, including the two of them. He has worked himself up to a keen tension, a certain level of arousal which would soon begin demanding a release. For sometime now, he has been waiting to act, and with pressure mounting, he becomes certain that the time is at hand. He watches, marking time with the pages of an engineering textbook he has barely looked at all day, the weight of which has become tantalizingly uncomfortable against his lap in recent hours. He waits, until . |