The panic starts to push through and her brain starts waking up.She touches between her thighs and adrenaline shoots through her system. It's sensitiv... but more worrisome, like her eyes, gooey and crusty. She takes a deep breath and tries to piece together the night before she starts blindly feeling around the room.Although she was only 18 and in her last year of high school her brother, Steve, had asked her to come out to visit him at University. He insisted that Marie bring along her best. Then I heard the woman below me whisper to the man lying next to her that it looked like rain, and I wondered if she knew how true that was, how hard and how quick the rain might come, and I wondered if they knew that in another hour the tide would be all the way up and they'd be cut off from the main beach. I was thinking maybe I ought to tell them this, otherwise they could be stuck half the night out here, and it can get pretty cold, and they definitely didn't have much clothes, just skimpy. To Dan’s unending credit, he was patient and waited for me until I was ready to speak. ‘I’m newly divorced, Dan. Very newly. My husband and I used to live in a large home in the south of the city, he earned a much better salary than me. When everything happened, I had to downsize. I came here because it’s nice but affordable and near a few schools, so I thought it would be an easy place to get some students.’ I didn’t cry because I had no more tears to shed. I was just hoping that Dan wasn’t. They could monitor how many viewers they had, a simple counter ran alongside the images of their bodies on the seventeen-inch screen and a tool bar at the top of the page showed instant messages from the observers. They rarely answered the messages, preferring to remain in the room to converse, unless they were too busy with each other to type.They liked to surf the net as well, sharing the excursion into lust and porn as a partnership. They shared fantasies where another was introduced into.