He gave me a card and said make some time for me and I can show you a good time. i said I would like that and gave him the bag. he leaned over and kis...ed me and said thanks.I called him the next day and told him my wife was gone until the next day. she went on a trip to the casino. I asked if he would like to relax in the pool and possibly a dip in the sap. He said hell yes. would you be able to spare some change. I said sure. he said you know where to find me. I pulled up and he jumped in. he. Why not hear him out?”I gave her a half-smile, and she smiled back and nodded at me. I took it as a sign to lay out my plan.“As I stated, I have been hospitalized since the first week of August, I have missed the first quarter of the semester. I would like to know how I can test out of the rest of high school and graduate early.”“I’m not sure I am following you.” Mrs. Thomas, my academic advisor, said. “Your grade point average is good, but not outstanding. Why are you interested in this course. I start to ask you questions as you stand there transfixed, dripping wet in your towel - did you just buy this place? How have things been going since we met at that party in the neighborhood? With each question I edge closer and closer to you - so this is just you? You're getting a divorce? With each question, I see you getting more and more turned on - your cheeks start to flush all the way down your neck and your chest - you're even shaking a little bit but I can also see your nipples. I have great interest in the welfare of the wife and child of Jack Heyward. I have none in that of the wife and child of Jackson Carstairs, and fear they may meet with ... misadventure. Does this alter your response?"The voice was dead cold; I couldn't keep on being coy."All right," I said, "let's say I am Jack Heyward—" Yes, let us say that," came that frigid voice. "You see how easily two men of intelligence may resolve such minor questions when they reason together?"I didn't say.