The day hadn't officially begun for me, but my phone was ringing incessantly. My brain fuzzily went through the motion of booting up, checking it's memory and available space before turning on the cameras which were my eyes. I clumsily reached for the phone, not even daring to look at the glare which the screen was giving to see who it was. "Hello", I croaked. "Hi. Is that you George?" came a voice which I did not immediately recognize. "Yep. All of me. Who is it please?" "It's me, Mel... Melanie, we met at the principal's office, and, uh... later on at the locker room." I smiled to myself. Well well... I decided to play dumb. "Oh, hi Mel. Yeah, apologies, I'm not much of a morning person." "Listen," she said, "I just want to thank you for yesterday." "Oh, that's cool. No problem. You needed the massage. Your back was in an awful shape." "I know. But also the extra bit made it e...