After my encouraging words to Anna I guess that was the point that put everything in perspective for her as the tears swimming in her eyes finally began to creep down her cheeks. I decided to let William take care of her tears totally as I also noticed tears swimming in his eyes. I figured they needed this moment alone (or at least as alone as they could as Jarrod and I were also at the table).

I tried to look away to give them some privacy but saw (out the corner if my eye) the tears in William's eyes begin to overflow. As I was about to completely look away I saw our waitress approaching. Instead of checking on us or asking us if we wanted to order anything else I was shocked when I saw the waitress wiping a tear from William's cheek then apologizing. I was even more shocked when he told her she didn't need to apologize, even asking for her name.

Enid's POV

It didn’t take long for Tristan to come back in and apologise and we both had an emotional hug as we both cried

We broke apart and wiped each other's tears. I was slightly more tentative as I had done the same thing earlier with a guy sitting in one of the booths and I got the impression that his wife or girlfriend didn't appreciate it too much. I don't know why I'd been so bold

Tristan asked what we would do next about Laura. He did suggest reaching out to Robyn, but I gently refused.

'She's waited all school year to spend an extended period of time with her girlfriend' I pointed out. 'We should let her enjoy her summer. At the risk of being unkind, Laura isn't her problem now'

Feeling the girl who identified as Enid's silky thigh jiggle against my arm brought a flashback in my mind: I was in high school, one day after school I went to play basketball with some friends, including James, Joe, Loren and her sister, and ,of course, Camilla. I saw Camilla wearing a pair of black sports shorts, barely covering her upper thighs when she ran swaying them to and fro. It was a two vs two, boys vs girls, so it was James and I vs Camilla and Loren. I remember both girls were very competitive in this game, while we were not giving it that much importance. At one point Loren had the ball and James told me to block her, she attempted a throw, I jumped and blocked it, she recovered the ball and went closer to the hoop, I was still blocking her way. I heard Loren's sister cheer her and James telling me to recover the ball, she started bouncing the ball trying to get past me, I quickly try to reach the ball, she took a quick, hard step forward, passing the ball to her back side, receiving it with her free hand behind her, I blush as I feel my hand slapping Loren's inner thigh, I have my sight there along with my hand as I tried to steal the ball, making her attractive lightly toned inner thigh jiggle. She threw the ball and missed, the sound of the board behind the hoop made me react and I jumped to catch the ball, successfully obtaining it and throwing it at James.

The game went on, just before the end, Camilla teased me (I guess she knew I had a crush on her) and not very skillfully tried to get past me, I placed my body in front of her, she clashed her inner thigh against my quads as she threw her body against mine, bouncing back and landing on her rear. Most her soft places jiggled, I offered her a hand, she pulled so strong she made me lose balance, I gave a strong step forward as she got up, accidentally hitting my forearm with her outer thigh. I think this was the first time I felt Camilla's silky, toned thighs against my naked skin, I had to go sit down to hide the very notorious tent that quickly grew in my shorts as I felt Camilla's outer thigh muscles jiggle against my forearm, I hoped I could feel it again at least once more in my life. Never would I know I would feel it again until I started dating her. (End of flashback).

I am surprised this young girl so boldly wiped William's tears and brushes her thigh with my arm. Once she leaves and we finish the coffee, as soon as we cross the door I smile and ask William: "Was this your idea of allowing your tears to fall unchecked in public with no embarrassment? I'm surprised you allowed the young lady to take care of your tears, that is definitely quite some progress, what will be your next challenge?" I turn to Anna: "Anna, you knew about this, right? William promised to work on letting his tears unchecked in public, letting you pat and jiggle his thighs in public and do this with the least embarrassment possible until he masters it and has no shame on it." I look at Anna...

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Caitlin's POV

Me and Robyn were still exploring London. We were doing the London Eye today. As we waited for our train I asked if she and her friend Susan would want to get a Guinness record through the tube as well

'No, it was nice to do the first one, but in some respects it was more trouble than it was worth' she explained 'Collecting all our evidence was actually quite stressful and took some of the fun out of it'

We climbed into out capsule and it gently rose over the city. As it reached the top, tears streamed down Robyn's face. We gently took each other's hand and I rested my head on her shoulder as tears streamed down my face too.

We wiped our tears away as the capsule descended then chose to have a nice walk along the Thames

Anna's pov:

I had a shocked look on my face after hearing what Jarrod told me.

"Honestly, I had no idea what William was up to. I mean I knew he was self conscious about his thighs and tears (especially in public) but I never knew he was working in it like that. I don't know...maybe he was too embarrassed to tell me and wanted to wait until he met his goal and wasn't embarrassed anymore." Anna said a bit confused as William and Camilla walked a few steps behind us.