It seems that Britney has been getting worse and worse in her behavior, and Carol agreed that something had to be done. We got dressed and Carol retur...ed to fixing dinner while I called Jack and arranged to “borrow” his equipment at this earliest convenience. Jack assured me he wouldn’t need it for another couple of weeks and I could borrow it to see if his approach might help. If it did, he could build another set. After dinner, we moved the equipment to my basement, without the girls even. Spirits were down, and they still faced Granite, Hermit, and Crystal Rapids. The first two went reasonably well, but for some reason everyone had a wetter and rougher run of Crystal than normal; Dan came near as damnit to a flip, and he said later he had no idea why the raft didn't go all the way over.The bottom line was that no one was any drier or warmer when they wrapped up Crystal.By then everyone was pretty down, wet, and cold; Crystal was about ready to get off the water for the day and. I turned back showing her the fear on my face and said HI. She directly asked me what was wrong with me and why do I keep staring at her everyday.I didn’t know what to say and I replied: “Don’t take me wrong, I just like the way your hair bun is so I keep staring at it”.She thanked me and told that it feels uncomfortable for her every time I stare at her and started going away. I stopped her and told I won’t repeat this and apologized. She said it’s okay and asked my name. I told and then asked. “Here you go. Do you wanna talk about all... um... that stuff now or later?”“We don’t have time now, you gotta be out of here in a few minutes, but we’ll talk tomorrow. It’s ok, I had a goo time, and I think you did too.” she said with a reassuring smile. Jake leaned in and when she leaned back gave her a quick peck on the lips.They headed down stairs past Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, plus Amy who were all on the couch watching a Miami Heat vs. Chicago Bulls basketball game. “Dad, Jake’s heading.