. here, let me show you." She leafed through thebook until she saw what she was looking for. She turned the book, sohe could read it and pointed to ...n entry.Zach read. "Clyde Ritter and Horace Styron... The Dining Room... $50.What's the dining room?" A private room," Wilma explained, "with its own entrance. Two orthree gents can eat their fill 'n' drink up some good booze, b'forethey get down to... business. There's some couches in the room for 'emt'use, all set up for privacy." And what. I went through the next week at school as if in a trance. I didn’t really notice that Cathy had swapped desks in those classes where we had sat next to each other, and barely acknowledged the sympathetic comments from my friends. It didn’t take long for the story that Cathy and I had broken up to get around, although few people knew the real reason.One thing that did surprise me was Janelle’s reaction. I was studying in the library during a free period, and she came up to me, and sat. Kate, the beautiful waitress at the bar, sat down beside me and handed me a large glass of red wine. I realized just then that I was at Kate’s apartment. I glanced around the room. It was charming and eclectic, albeit a bit cluttered. I looked back at Kate, who was smiling at me with a sympathetic, but supportive look.I saw Kate for the first time just then, I knew she was pretty, but I only took in her real beauty just then. Kate had a perfect smile, big dreamy blue eyes, soft, lightly tanned. ... NOON-ISH.I'd seen it done in comedies, but I'd never been woken up by someonetossing water at my face before. Even though I could breathe either air orwater the combination made me cough and sputter- "What are you DOING?!!?" Making sure you don't dry out," said the woman with the now-empty bucket."Thank you, but I'm not a dolphin. I can survive on land, or..." I lookedaround and took in my surroundings, "...or on a boat."I was on the deck of the white yacht that had been following me.