Her skin was tired, without the youthful glow on the curves of the girl across the room, and I felt a horrible awareness of only kidding myself I was ...till young. My eyes crept back to my daughter’s friend. She was gaily talking in her group and isolated from me by a gulf of years I was only just beginning to accept. Most of my life was over, and beyond being recaptured. I’d squandered the zest and liberty of my youth, tying myself down to a job and promotions then, at thirty, for business. Joe watches as she hands over their things, it gets placed in a sealable holder and she gets a clip with a number on it and comes back to him, he holds out his hand, she takes it and they slip on their sandals, before heading down the beach, chatting away as they walk.“Well if that isn’t Joe, I’m a walrus”They both look in the direction of the voice and a big, solidly built man comes walking over to them with a huge grin on his face“Whoa no way! John, what on earth are you doing here?”John and. She was standing in the middle of the pool wearing a pink bikini top that pushed out a perky set of breasts that were much smaller than Lilly's but still quite 'grab worthy'. Remembering to look up from her cute tits, I could see this girl had light brown hair that ran just past her shoulders and overall she appeared to be much smaller in stature than Lilly but more athletic."Oh well that's ok but ummm who's this?" I asked pointing to the pink bikini beauty in the water. Once again the girls. Like I said, I was busy with the code. Didn't think much of it.Nor did I take any particular interest in all of the discussions about new recruits. Well, Dave asked me to work out what I'd need in the short term to get the "product" up and running and to talk to Deb about longer term structures, but they were talking about getting in finance people - currently all the payroll stuff was being done by the accountants downstairs, with PCW doing the rest - and someone to deal with contracts and all.