The creek was swift by this time and rising at an alarming rate. Numchucks took to the water like a diver at a meet. The way chucks began paddling fra...ticly told us right away that the current was faster than the surface water and the bend in the river created a whirlpool. Numchucks was relentlessly trying to head for the Duck. The Bird was drifting quickly into the rather large whirlpool, about the size of a baseball diamond. I panicked and yelled for chucks not to get the bird and come here.. “Why did you turn back?” he asked. “Keep going, I’m getting to know your family, I’m enjoying this.”“Let’s not go there. I don’t think you’ll enjoy the next page.”“Huh? What do you mean? What don’t you want me to see?”“It’s not that,” she said, and turned and looked into his eyes. “It’s just, well, I don’t know, it’s in the past. I should have removed those…”“What?”“The pictures. They are me and my husband.”“Dixie, please. I know you were married. What’s the big deal? So what if I see a photo. Ric paused and stared into her dainty blue gaze, the colour of forget-me-nots. “You have, haven’t you?” she pressed. “Once,” he admitted. “And?” “And what?” he rebuked. “Did you enjoy making love to her?” asked Jennifer. She felt foolish and sheepish, but also very curious about this side of things. Part of her was also jealous that another girl had had Ric’s attentions at one point. “Sex is sex. You don’t have to love someone to sleep with them. Making love is… well it’s different,” Ric. It had been mostly to simply remove the singed hair from the first attack.We stocked up on all her favorite necessities — gels, soaps, shampoos and conditioners, toothpaste, deodorant, lipstick, foundation, toner. It’s amazing how much you need when you’re starting completely from scratch.Everything in her Columbia apartment had been donated to charity. Bad memories for one thing. And there was a chance, no matter how remote, that the Blowtorch Beast could somehow track a shipment from there to.