And now 3 months later, New Years Eve, 'Anna' would see thelight of day and brave the night. A crowd a million strong was supposedto crowd the harbour...foreshores to eat and drink and cheer in the NewYear with another no doubt spectacular fireworks display. 'She' looked again trying to see what others might until with a sigh shegrabbed the large shoulder bag and the nylon hamper with travel rug,light picnic a chilled cheap bubbly and a bottle of water. Glancedquickly around the small bed-sit. “How was yours?”“We had a great time,” I said. “But I could use a shower.”“I just got one a little while ago, and I guess I fell asleep,” she said. “When you’re done with yours come back to bed.”I walked into the bathroom and stripped. While the water was heating up I looked in the mirror. I was a little sunburned, especially on the white skin normally covered by shorts or a swimsuit, and I knew it would be obvious to Vickie that I had spent part of the day naked. Somehow, though, I wasn’t. “Tell you what, I think I’ll pass, but thanks a lot for meeting with me.” I placed a twenty on the table. “That’s for your lunch.” I stood to leave.“Why not?” she asked.“You have a computer in your bag. It’s filled with a ton of freeware, or pirated software allowing you to plug in information and have a bunch of web crawlers do the rest. In other words you want to charge me fiver hundred bucks for two hours work. So no thanks. And I only work with friends, unless I go into a retail store or a. ‘I mean, what are you doing here’, he continued. ‘Relaxing, what are you doing here’, she offered with a smile. ‘but this is my cabin’, he offered. Now she was getting perplexed. ‘I just rented it for the night from Helen’, she explained ‘Well I rented it from Hal half an hour ago’, he countered By this time she was getting weary of trying to talk over the din of the pounding rain. She asked him to come in so they might sort it all out. With the ever harder hammering of rain he couldn’t.