But Richard did no such thing. Instead, he knocked on his sister'sdoor, even more softly than last time, and when she told him to comein, he stood the...e, looking very demure and very nervous, with hiscandy-cane legs and his white petticoats. Maybe he'd felt sorry for her- she knew he hadn't known about that thing with that one cousin - ormaybe he thought she'd go easy on him if he quietly complied. Shedidn't know and didn't care. She had the chance for revenge and was notgoing to waste it."What. Before her feet had registered her standing on them, I was up. Pinning her. The wall and the pillar on two sides, and I on the third. Even if willing, there was no escape. But she was unwilling. Our palms were one, as the fingers locked. The foreplay had reached the end as I moved in, with her welcoming. I drowned in her shy gaze, falling headlong into the pool. Falling into her warm embrace. The second our lips met, everything dissolved into the bright darkness as our eyes closed shut. As I. The couple was German--very German. That meant that they swam nude and everyone swam nude. Girls and boys. Everyone swam nude.When I first arrived there, I wasn't prepared for that. I got there on a Saturday. The taxi brought me to the house and Eve, and Hans welcomed me in. They took me on a tour of the house, showed me my room, and suggested I unpack and come down for a swim. I came down in my speedo.By that time there were three other students at the pool. One other boy who was sixteen and. Jackson Lyons, on theother hand, hadn't frightened me quite as much as I expected when hepassed by me in the canteen - but then I'd been expecting him to be asout for my blood as he had been for Trevor's. I'd still been on edge ashe walked past, cronies in tow - but instead of sinister threats slippedmy way if anything I'd heard faint laughter - though I didn't know if Iwas just getting paranoid. I still felt as if everyone could see straightthrough my (tighter-fitting) prison uniform to the.