With her head resting on Nathan’s shoulder, Crystal dreamt that she was a young girl again. She had been afraid of the dark, and her Mother was comforting. Her Mother gently hugged her, patted her on the back, and hummed a lullaby.
Crystal wanted more of her Mother’s warmth, so she pressed her body against her and nuzzled her head against her chest. She could smell mint on her breath, and she began to feel dizzy. Why does my Mother smell like mint? - Crystal wondered. Her Mother had never smelled like mint before!
When Crystal opened her eyes, she found herself in her bed, with Nathan hovering over her. And she began to panic. She tried to get up, but Nathan had her pinned down. She watched in horror as he lowered his head. “What are you doing here?” s
Crystal started and restarted her phone, but she was still unable to edit her Contact List, so she posted her problem to Instagram, and within minutes she was flooded with suggestions.Re: What is the phone model? Why can’t you edit it? Try rebooting the phone and try again.Re: Look at the manual and click on the Contacts. You are supposed to edit them directly from there.Re: Show me the model.Crystal took a picture with her old phone and added it to the comments, and the replies continued to fly in.Re: Isn’t this the latest and most expensive model?Re: Yes. It’s an iPhone Princess Plus!Re: The phone is studded
Crystal took the phone card of her old phone and inserted it into the iPhone Princess Plus for temporary use, and as soon as it was installed, the phone vibrated, and a text message from Serenity appeared. It said: “Crystal, Are you insane?!?!?!”Crystal: “Calm down and tell me what happened!”Serenity: “You posted a selfie with Frank on Instagram! What were you thinking?”Crystal: “What are you talking about? There isn’t a photo with Frank and me on Instagram!”Serenity: “Oh! What happened to it? Is it gone? Did you feel so guilty about it that you deleted it?”Crystal: “Never mind that. Where are you? You should have been here already.”
When Serenity saw how nervous Frank was, she snickered and said, “Hey, Frank, don’t be so nervous, or people will think we’re bullying you, and then they’ll take your seat.”Crystal glared at Serenity and said, “Don’t scare him. You’re a bandit compared to him. Do you know that?” She turned to Frank. “Don’t be afraid. I’ve got your back.” With that said, Crystal made herself comfortable behind the desk that she’d chosen.After a moment, Frank said, “Thank you for taking the selfie with me.”Crystal: “You’re welcome. You know that it doesn’t mean anything, right? I was just using you to make someone else jealous.”Frank: “I know, and I don’t
Crystal stood up, but when she tried to pass Nathan, he blocked her way. She gave him a dirty look and said, “Professor Davis, would you please make way for me?”Nathan immediately slid out of the way, but as she took her first step, she tripped on his foot and sat on Nathan’s leg. Crystal was wearing a thin skirt, so when she landed on Nathan, she could feel the heat of his body through the delicate material. She felt his hot breath on her neck when he opened his mouth; when he said, “You’re getting good at this.”Crystal, of course, understood the words’ dual meaning, but she was not in the mood to have a fierce battle of the tongue with him in front of her classmates, mainly because some of them - especially the girls - thought that she had fallen on his leg on purpose.C
When Crystal arrived at the cell phone store, she saw a nervous boy standing by the door, and as she approached, she was surprised to discover that he was Frank. Crystal took off the headphones and said, “Hey, what are you doing here?”“Well, I’m waiting... Waiting for you,” Frank replied.“You’re waiting for me….” Crystal said.“What’s up?” She looked up and saw that the sign on the store’s door said, “CLOSED.”Frank: “My friend Reg called me and said that he is hosting a dinner party tonight at a nearby restaurant. He asked me to take you there so that he can give you your phone. He would have called you, but you didn’t leave your number.”
As Crystal gradually awoke, she began to smell the mint fragrance that she associated with Nathan. Then, when she opened her eyes, they confirmed her suspicion. For a moment, she stared blankly at Nathan’s thin lips, and the longer she looked at him, the more attracted to him she felt.Nathan put his left arm under Crystal’s knees and wrapped his right arm around her waist, and she put her arms around the back of his neck. Then she pressed her hot lips on Nathan’s. Crystal felt like she was drowning, and she turned to Nathan and looked at him in the way that one might look at a Life Buoy.Nathan frowned, and he stifled his male physiological response as Crystal touched him and kissed him recklessly. He had never seen Crystal like this, and a voice cried out in his mind - Get out of here! Quick!
Crystal looked at Serenity and asked, “What did Nathan do when he saw Frank’s shrine to me in his house?”Serenity: “Professor Davis nearly blew a gasket. He tore up the photos and the inflatable dolls, and then he burned the pieces in the backyard. He is usually calm and polite, so it was pretty scary to see him lose control of himself like that.”Crystal shook her head and said, “You’ve got it all wrong. His calm and polite persona is just an act. The way you saw him when he was angry is what he is really like.”Serenity: “That can’t be true. After all, Professor Davis said that he didn’t feed Frank to the sharks. As you know, Frank is one of his students. Professor Davis fired him, though, and then he threw him into a mine. It will take Frank ten y
Nathan met Crystal’s eyes in the mirror, and his brow furrowed furiously. “What is your problem?” he shouted. All he knew was that Crystal wanted to divorce him. “I would think that the advantages of being married to me would outweigh the disadvantages, but not only do you not want to talk about our marriage, but you want to keep it a secret! What’s up with that? How long until we can’t make our marriage public?”“We can make it public after I graduate,” Crystal replied.Nathan: “That will do.”It was a ten-minute drive from their home to the supermarket, and when they arrived, Nathan followed Crystal into the store. They got a cart to put the groceries in, and as they were walking through the produce section, someone pushed Crystal against Nathan, an