I was unsure just what he could have heard about me, but I was willing to go with the flow for Bryan's sake."What do you know about Phi Kappa Phi frat...rnity?" asked John."Well, uh..."Before I could embarrass myself, Bryan jumped in. "Sean's just doing some preliminary skirmishing, Captain. Will you excuse us? I see Melanie over there, and I think she's looking for us."He hustled me away. John looked indulgently pleased as Bryan steered me out of the room."Captain?" I asked as we stepped back. By the time we got to dessert, she was sipping her Baileys, and was getting pretty drunk. I casually slowly turned the conversation towards sex and finally got to the point where we talked about what turned her on. She didn’t want to talk about this subject, at which I called her a coward. She willingly walked into the trap, and challenged me about being a coward. At that point I dared her to take some pictures of her on the parking lot, on the way home. She hesitated a little, but with all the. "We don't have to stay up too late, and we can get an earlier start in the morning that way." Start on what?" Gwen asked, laughing. "Remember, we already took care of everything earlier today." Oh, right. Well, even more reason to just stay with us." Hm, yea, I could. But I have all my overnight stuff over at Joe's." Well," I began, marveling at how well this was working out, "Why don't I drive you to Joe's, and honey," I said to Ingrid, "can you go ahead and get the guest room straightened. He handed her one of the signed forms and looked up at her with despair. ‘Why are you doing this Carol? I thought we were happy. I retired early like you wanted and we travel some. Why are you doing this?’ ‘Damn it George, we have gone over this time and time again. I’m still young. I have money to enjoy life, to do things I’ve always wanted to do and go places I’ve always wanted to go. I don’t want to sit out here in the woods on the side of this hill and stare at the stream you are so in love.