After the song, she whispered something to him, and they went over to the table and sat down. She had their complete attention, and they were buying h...r drinks, and each taking turns dancing with her (and basically feeling her up). She played her part masterfully and was very flirtatious, and didn’t protest a bit. In fact, she seemed to enjoy all the attention she was getting.I eventually joined the group, and as Sherry and one of them were dancing, I told the story we’d made up. I told them. I looked at her with loving eyes. She saw the love within and started to kiss me again, when suddenly, “Ladies! So glad to see you here again!” It was Adam that approached us. “Mark and John will be so glad to see you here again. Come join us?” Tracy looked at me and nodded. She grabbed my hand and led me to where my other friends were located. Once we got to their table, Adam said, “Guys! Guess who showed up tonight!” Mark looked at me and said, “Hi there sexy! So glad you came back. I take it. ..?" Then she asked if we could thumb through the photos together.Although still somewhat embarrassed by what had transpired, the wine had taken root, and with the feeling of a liberated man that had just bared his soul, I went to retrieve my laptop to share the most intimate photos of my life with the woman I would be marrying in several months.We browsed the pics in slideshow format with her pausing occasionally to take a longer or closer look. Many of the photos were me naked or semi-naked. I need to think. We near the lakeshore?”“Over there.”They drove a few hundred meters further. The ground had been soft, but the Toyota now sank about two centimeters into the former lakebed. Sam got out as did Tessa.“It reeks,” she said.“Sixty years of detritus, rotting vegetation, some fish. It’ll dry out, but there’ll be more when the rains come.” Sam turned to Andy. “Where’s the new spring?”Andy gestured toward the northeast.“Can we drive there?”“Dunno. We can try.”“OK.”Sam drove along a dry.