‘Hot-doggity. You’re quick.’ ‘Thank you. Are you Noel’s son?’ ‘Yeah, I’m Kerry Hill.’ ‘I’m Adele.’ ‘Hi, you look like you ca... beat the cover off a ball.’ ‘I get by.’ ‘Let us two play the old guys. Dad plays a mean game and has been club intermediate champion about five times over fifteen years and Ralphie is almost as consistent. They both play off fourteen and I’m steady on eight.’ ‘That will be unfair to them. I can play pretty well although it’s almost six months since I last played.’ ‘No. Kent closed the distance byputting his arm around me and drawing me closer to him. He put his armaround me!Just companionable, I guessed.Still, it was odd.Then he explained. "Lois and I sit like this at night after the kids goto bed."Oh.That made sense.He was just trying to keep things normal.I relaxed a bit. Though it did seem odd - us both being guys and all.When the game was over, around 10 p.m., Mr. Kent announced that he wasgoing to bed. "You'd better go too, Jimmy," he said wisely. What. "I don't know," said Mom, "you'd have to check with your mother first.I'm not sure she'd agree to that." Okay," said Lucy, "No problem." She looked at me and grinned. "You'llbe glad to be rid of me I bet, won't you Tina?"I shovelled some more food into my mouth and looked away.Max arrived at about eleven o'clock the next morning.I'd spent the evening watching TV while Lucy rang round some of my oldfriends and listened to my music. There were lots of great programs onthat I was really getting. After a while I asked what do you think about it? Would you? I don’t know he said, what would I get if I did it? What would you want? I asked, he thought a while and said, ok I will do it only if you all take off your tops and pants as well. We all looked at each other in horror. One of the girls said well I suppose if your going to do it for us the least we can do is do the same for you. Zoe locked the door so we would not get disturbed, her brother looked very nervous and said I hope you.