We shouldn’t be doing this.” “Drop those shorts!” I demanded and started walking toward him. “You’ve seen me naked now it’s your turn. ...rop’Em stud.” “I can’t right now.” Steven said sheepishly. “Why? What’s wrong?” “You just need to get in the water or cover up or something. Please.” “Do you have a hard-on? You do don’t you? Is it because of me?” I asked as a sense of pride came over me. The one time in my life that I was naked in front of a man and he got excited. “How about this?. We had been there the best part of a week and the weather had been great which meant I had the pleasure of watching sunbathing topless with the Pyrenees in the background, only one winner in that contest, although one of the lifeguards told her off for it as apparently they took a dim view of topless sunbathing on a Sunday. More fool them.As I said the weather had been great and although a blonde and quite fair skinned Roxy had started to go a lovely golden colour and I have to admit I could. "Betty's mouth dropped open in outrage. She started to sputter but Paul didn't give her a chance."Jennifer has won and she gets the hug," Paul said. He stood up and took Jennifer in his arms. She melted against him, thrilled not only that she had pleased him but that she had won over Betty. Paul held her close for a long enough moment that she relaxed with her head against his shoulder. Then she turned with a spiteful smile and looked at Betty expectantly.As she was wont to do, Betty stamped. This process — "fixing", he called it — became central to his work. As he came to understand better the workings of the brain he found that he could target the "fixing" agent with great precision, then he found that he could "tie" to the fixing agent the chemical or hormone he wanted the brain to generate.The cocktails of chemicals and hormones that constituted his "fixes" and "ties" could be taken orally or injected directly, although he was also interested in less conventional delivery.