He called her often using a relay system with his ham radio, but another thing Taz knew nothing about, radios. She stepped out to the deck overlooking...the lake and looked down. It was the clearest water she had ever seen outside of a glass of water and there was a wood ladder leading up from the water. She had learned to swim as a kid at summer camp and the water was inviting, but she had no swim suit. She thought of skinny dipping, but if someone came by... "Nonsense!" she muttered. "This is. ”Gratitude? From a sub? Where was this going? Guy closed his eyes having a deep sense of satisfaction which he hadn’t known for some time.When he opened his eyes, the way the sun slanted through an upper window told him that the day had moved on. His head was snuggled into Emma’s shoulder. When had that happened?He sat up and asked, “Have I been asleep?” Knowing the answer already.“Yes, Sir.”Their eyes met, yet again, and he was on his feet, gripping her hand to pull her up alongside him.. Marina and I had talked to five school district recruiters and were disappointed to find that none could promise jobs for both of us although they had said the probabilities were good. Marina and I did not like the sound of ‘probabilities’ and she did not like that one of the first words out of each recruiter’s mouth was ‘coach.’ She really was put off when the sport one of them mentioned was basketball. We were outside the meeting room doors sort of leaning against each other as we normally. “The original, ‘hear him whip the women’, or the tamer version, ‘hear him with the women’? What can we get away with?”“I reckon we go with the original,” Phil said. “Unless you prefer not to whip them?”“Nah, we’ll whip ‘em,” I said. “Any special choreography, Allison?”“Not sure yet, maybe just more strutting and pouting. Remember, when you get the line ‘how come you taste so good’, you know what it is you’re referring to, don’t you?”“Of course, I wasn’t born yesterday!”“So pick out a woman in.