Chapter Thirteen
They were in the City. A early September day. It was turning into a fine one. The air smelling of fall, even though it was still feeling very much like summer. For San Francisco, it was becoming real summer, when the winds changed and the fog was not so oppressive, and there would be glorious days without the murky shroud that often blanketed the sparkling town.
Ashley was beginning to feel more comfortable flying down to visit Nick. Not that dates with Nick were any easier. It was just easier each time, when she thought less of Jess somewhere on the Berkeley campus, doing whatever Jess would be doing. September now, classes beginning again, and all that insufferable research. She was thinking of him less and less, happily so.
Ashley carried groceries from a small neig
