The only way to do that was to play a couple of songs and let Gwen and Chrissie get a feel for the acoustics and how to mix it.That definitely caught ...he attention of the beach-goers, as first Tony played the acoustic intro to Crazy on You then Rebecca's crystal voice started to pound out the lyrics. That went into the song that had the single most titillating song title for females everywhere, Boston's Foreplay/Long Time, what girl doesn't want both?Tony waved his arms to Gwen after the second. Finally, you took pity on me. Holding my chin firmly in your hand, your eyes were not unkind as you spoke. "Breathe. You can do this." This was new to me. It was something I'd only recently discovered about myself. You'd seen it, and gently drawn it out, patiently teaching and helping me to understand that it was okay to want this; okay to want to submit myself totally to another person, to trust someone enough to give myself to them in this way. To trust and submit myself to you. I wouldn't. See you soon," and walked out of my office.I tried my damnedest to try to get some work done, but nothing seemed to flow. I went down to the snack bar in our building for lunch, and had a burger and coke and sat at a small table back in the corner. We had that set up for people who wanted to be alone with their laptops or maybe a private phone call out of the heat of the outside tables. It was the middle of July, and the temperature would top a hundred and ten, today. Anyway, I sat there deep. "Manami," Sarah said as she gently shook the younger woman's shoulder.Manami's physical wounds appeared to have healed. Sarah was amazed atthe healing that had taken place among the four of them, and wasdetermined to ask how the mers had accomplished it, but she also knewthe emotional scars Manami harbored would take much longer to heal.Manmi slowly began to stir, mumbling as she started to come around."Miki?" she said sleepily as her eyes fluttered open. She saw asilhouette of a woman standing.