Pressing her feet against the lumber, she slowly pulls herself up onto the edge – only to slip and tumble off and into the confined space. She becom...s immediately aware of an oversight made when she used the peep-hole: there is a tall stone wall cutting off the beach that the fence was built on, so she drops a good ten feet into the sand, and rolls for a several yards, eyes closing tightly to avoid the stirring white sands. At last, she stops rolling, and opens her eyes, the deep blue of ocean. I heard a muffled “Go” through the door and looked at Grace. She looked at me and said we should ask each other questions and I said sure. She asked if I had ever been with a woman. I said no, nothing more than one kiss. I asked her the same. She said no, but had been thinking about it. I asked “Can I kiss you, I mean it is seven minutes in heaven”. She giggled and shook her head yes. Suddenly all my nerves were gone and I felt completely comfortable. I brushed some straight locks of hair sassy. That incident also made think more about my sister; and that’s when I gave a serious thought to her changed behavior. I realized that the main thing that was disturbing me was the way my young sister had been observing me ever since Sheila’s episode. After the scaffold episode, I could guess what it was… Certainly not a sisterly looks at her brother… It was a stare of a woman who looked at someone when she was in love. She was behaving more like a lovebird rather than an innocent sister. It was. The moment he stopped running to take a breather, the pain returned in his right leg, surging from his thigh down to his calf. While his elbow seemed to be getting better — he could at least move it around in a circle and seemed to have full range of motion — his shoulder injury from the helicopter crash felt like it was getting worse, despite the Lieutenant’s best efforts at first aid. The longer he stayed out here, the greater the chance his shoulder would get infected. The sun was beginning.