I noticed Carol was pretty taken with Dick. We talked about our mutual friends, Patty and Paul. Several times they made comments that made me think th...y knew our friends on a more intimate plane than we had.It was late and they wanted to get up early the next morning to ski. We all went upstairs and each to our own room. I have to admit I wanted to follow Jane into her bed. Not instead of Carol but with Carol. I love Carol dearly. She is the woman for me I know. But damn Jane looked like an E. Nooo.’ At least, well, no, she didn’t think it would be right. She was tempted though, she was tempted.All the camp friends had to take a turn at the late night patrol. It was 12, midnight, the idea was to make sure the groups were settling down, and that no-one had slipped out for a midnight feast in the boat house or somewhere. Because they were sneaky buggers, these girls. Turn your back and they’d have bars of chocolate, chips and Coke (or Pepsi, Seven-Up, Gatorade; whatever, never alcohol. ’ She motioned for him to follow her across the gym. She helped him to set his bike up on the trainer that was attached to the computers and put the heart rate and breathing monitors on him. ‘You know the drill?’ ‘Yeah.’ His voice was muffled through the big plastic cone that was now covering half of his face. Micah pedaled at the output she specified and she collected samples of his blood every two minutes to determine his lactate threshold. She pricked his ear to get the first sample and. ..sleep" Robert's voice droned on the same way over and over, and finally, her eyelids began to droop. As much as she hated to let go of those gorgeous eyes, she was much too tired to keep her own eyes open. Alice wanted to obey it, that persuasive voice. The more it told her to sleep, the more she wanted to; the more she believed it was the right thing to do. She closed her eyes completely, and fell into a deep, peaceful slumber. When Alice awoke, she found herself slightly dazed and.