Jackson sat in his office on a Thursday afternoon. Everyone had gone to have their lunch; to their surprise he was not so eager to join them. On any other day he would push everyone in the department to gather for meals, and being a Thursday, they had created a tradition of having lunch at a well-known restaurant. He could not tell them what was wrong. He could only say he had to finish prepping for the presentation and thankfully, they believed him and off they left. His being alone was punctuated by languorous thoughts slamming the back of his head. Jackson had once met a lovely girl while he was at campus, Samantha. He had liked her. But she was already involved with another person and from the way Samantha talked about her boyfriend Robert, there was no room to try and change anything. So Jackson respected her relationship with Robert. But he made sure she was aware how much he liked her, liking was an understatement. Through their stay at university, Samantha fell pregnant for...