"Why you little..." The guard raised his hand to me and then he realised where we were and lowered his arm. We had started to gather a small crowd. Ev...ntually he spoke into his radio. "The kid wants the manager out here. There're too many people for that. The longer we mess about the bigger the crowd." The radio crackled unintelligibly. He turned to me. "The manager'll be here in a minute," he tailed off talking to himself, but I still heard him say, "for all the good it will do you."About a. " How do you mean?" Brenda asked, genuinely curious.Randall looked a bit sheepish for a moment, then plunged on."Their attitudes toward sex and relationships were much more casual but in many ways, much more adult. They don't seem to have all the hang-ups we do," he said seriously.Brenda smiled a knowing smile. "So I take it you pretty much screwed your way around Europe then?"Randall flushed and had a look of acute embarrassment. "Well, uh, that's maybe an exaggeration."Brenda laughed again.. “Why am I not surprised?”“Their relationship lasted exactly one year - she gave him her virginity on her fifteenth birthday and they made love for the last time on her sixteenth.”“You do like your young girls, Tiger,” Jessica said with a smile.“I do, but as Bethany pointed out, I have to be careful about age of consent laws. And I am getting a bit old to be with fifteen-year-olds.”“True, though Kathy had some interesting things to say on Saturday night!”“Like I’ve said, that all stems from a. I wasn’t exaggerating. I did think she was a pretty wonderful woman. I thought that if we’d met in other circumstances, we could have become very close, even actual lovers. Of course, I realized that under different circumstances, I’d never have been brave enough to go on a date with anyone like her.When the ladies returned and sat down, I asked, “Michelle, may I have this dance?”She looked over at Brett, silently asking his permission. He understood and told her, “Fine, go ahead. Just no.