"Chicken Pox? Ouch," Adam said with a wince. They said it was worse to have the older you got, and he remembered his bout only a year previously. He still had scars on his stomach, and his arm. But those you couldn't see because of another one that cut right through it, from a football accident.

"I think you will like it," he commented, looking across the room at the view out of the window. "It's my first year, but I really love it here. So far, anyways."