“Between tha’ and tae glory hole yeh’ve had a busy week then.” Angus said as he scrubbed himself clean of the funk of air travel.“I’ve als... decided to stop wearing the butt plugs.” Tegan continued “Sam gave me the upgrade you left for him and I decided it’s too far.” She bit off the sentence before inadvertently adding ‘sorry’ to the end of it. She needed to take a stand – as much as she enjoyed the guys putting so much effort into finding new depravities to push her boundaries, the line needed. The island was not a large one, so it only took about 20 minutes of trudging through the hot, white sand to reach Vanessa’s place. From the beach a cobble-stone path curved up through an unkempt cactus garden to Vanessa’s front yard. As I got close to her house I heard the sound of softly splashing water and realised that she had turned the fountain back on. This fountain, which had been silent since Old Man Ramsey had become too infirm to visit his island retreat, was in the form of a statue. The Cox's had no air conditioning and he imagined Greg lying in the bed at night stripped to the waist, his chest slightly damp, waiting for the soothing cool of a northern summer night. Seth was in no hurry to go back to the school. He lingered in Greg's room puzzling out a way to close the breach with Greg. He returned to the picture of Greg and Hal. Maybe this all would have been easier if he could have dealt with the younger Greg in the picture. He wondered what Greg had been like. "You. It wasn't even the commonest."Come on boy!" she would say. That meant a romp in the yard or a walk outside. In the yard it meant a game of fetch, usually. Every once in a while it meant a game of tag in the yard. Those were the times when she filled a tub with the hose and got out the soap first."Oh Wiggles!" she would say time after time. And it meant everything. It meant that I shouldn't have done it but it was cute. It meant that I was learning and that she was proud of me. It meant that she.