I’ve got long legs and I was tanned and wearing short shorts and a tee shirt tied off around my middle. It was my second day on the island and I was...a little bored and a whole lot horny. She gave me a little smile and tipped her glass my way. I strolled over to her table and said “Hi, I’m Darcy. You look like you’re having a good time. Do you mind if I join you for a bit?”“Sure, Darcy, have a seat. I’m Lori.”“Thanks. Aren’t these margaritas fantastic? I could make a killing selling these back. I got a little worried and bent forwards to se if she was breathing and could detect why she didn't respond. Her breath stenched of alcohol. She was drunk. I knew that Margareta and Karl could be rather heavy on the booze at times and this must be one of these days.I placed my hand on her bare skin just to check-out that she hadn't been in the sun to long but I felt only a slight warmth emanating from her and left her in the deck-chair and went to the open door and called for Karl. There was no. My younger brother and I scrounged up a bit of money by recycling cans andbottles. Most of that money went for comic books and snack food.I'm not sure who, it was who paid for it, but I also got to go on my 8thgrade class trip to DC. I picked up a cheep pair of handcuffs as asouvenir.While we did not have much to eat, the one thing we did have wasingredients like flour. My younger sister and I became pretty damn good atbaking. We went through an entire cookbook of recipes for cookies.Everything. In reality she had never had a friend,or a had a friend who had a spouse that had a baby before. Babies, orkids for that matter never had a place in Mike's life.The first baby shower that she had ever attended was for a friend from herBible Study. At that shower she met Denise. They discovered that theywent to the same gym and they started taking classes together. And monthslater Denise had her own baby shower and Gina was invited. She attendedshowers that were thrown for her friends from.