My Dad quickly offered me to help and called me outside and her eyes and my eyes met and I’m sure my reaction was noticeable (flush, instantly hot, ...lightly shaking)...probably still out of shock and embarrassment because I did not know why she was there(really hoping it wasn’t to tell my dad what had happened the year before).My Dad quickly said...”do you mind going in town with Kathy to help her carry a few things?” and I looked at her and she waved me over in a very confident manner, not. Pulling the towel off my head, I shook out my hair, letting it fall around my shoulders and down my back. I draped the towel over the banister - well, everyone else seemed to do that - and headed to my car. I was on my way!I threw my suitcase onto the back seat, not bothering with the trunk as I didn’t plan on going far. Just far enough to have a good time, maybe the next town over. There’d be a place where I could let my hair down and have some fun like I did… well, like I did way back in the. " Strategy? Who needs strategy? I'm totally happy. My big plan was to get to be Alan's official girlfriend, so now that that's happened I'm cool. Cool beans in the blue jeans!"Katherine thought, Geez, I wish Amy wasn't such an airhead. She's just too easy-going and easy to please. But then a thought hit her and she looked at Amy quizzically. "Plan? You had some kind of plan for that?"Amy had a "deer in the headlights" look, but it passed quickly. "Er, no, I mean ... just ... I was psyched to. But there was no questionthat they were more in sync with him with every passing minute. Goddamn! he thought. It's like sex without touching! The next half-hour unrolled like the most expansive foreplay Aaron had everengaged in. He changed position. They changed position. They shifted the pattern.He shifted the pattern. He started a new procedure. They followed suit. Before long, a finely layered sheen of perspiration glossed the skin ofall three, Aaron's seeming to catch the damp light.