Maybe, if I'm careful, I can work up some sort of tan. Mostly, I just seem to grow freckles.The sun feels so good. I lay there with a cloth over my ey...s to block out the glare, feeling heat sink into my breasts and belly and thighs, relaxing and soothing. I hear the door slide open and shut, and then Just's voice -- his feet make no sound on the deck."Need some help with your back?"I try not to smile. Just has seen me -- and Mom -- laid out like this often. He's a genuinely good person, as far. Living in rural england my mates and i would all hang out and we would make hang outs. Sometimes an empty garage sometimes a self made hut in the local woods. They were just places to hang out, meet up, and get high at. There was about eight of us. We wernt a gang or any of that shit. We were just all around the same age and into the same thing. So anyways. One day after college i went to our base to see if ne one was about. I arrived to find "paul" the newest , and to be honest campest member. " Cool," I said. "I'll see you after they leave?" You're a smart guy, CB."I looked at the clock, and considered to myself. It'd be tight but I'd have time. Maybe I should have felt guilty for what I was considering, but I'd made no promises to Cindy, nor her to me. I walked outside, and knocked on the Cooke's back door. Janet opened it up. "Hi Brian," she said. "Don't you have a date tonight?" Not for at least another hour," I said. "So..." Plenty of time," we said together.She laughed at that.. "But if we max out the line ofcredit and maybe get a $15,000 short term loan from the credit unionwe can make it." Balderdash," a voice away from the table said. "I can loan you the$42,000. I've got the money just sitting in the bank. They don't evenpay me interest on it."They all looked at Grandpa. "But it is so much money," Geoff saidweakly."So make me a partner. Silent partner, I think they call it. The moneywill be my buy in," Grandpa said."We will pay you interest on the money," Geoff.