. "I'm sorry honey,I'm very angry, and I've been taking it out on you. We have a situation,something that could turn out to be very ugly." What?" Your...father is coming by. He says that he wants to see you." So? Let him!" You don't understand honey, once he sets eyes on you, he'll goballistic, and there's no telling what he'll do!"I had a simply grand idea, so... "It's okay mom. Tell him to come andvisit. I can guarantee that he won't bother either of us!" And just how are you going to manage. Jack had laid out all of our safety equipment – the life jackets, flares, first aid kit, and all of the equipment specified in the AYF regulations and the race entry documents.Rather than the standard ‘life jackets’ (or, to use the correct term ‘personal flotation devices’) we had what were called ‘sospenders’ – a safety harness that went over the shoulders and buckled around the waist, with a heavy duty nylon webbing safety line that clipped from the harness to the safety lines that had been. So I’ve known you two since high school. So I thought you two would be married by now.’ He looked like my words wounded him. I hated to see an old friend in such raw pain. ‘It’s been fifteen sixteen years since we got out of school,’ he said in almost a whisper. His cigarette had gone out in his hand. He looked down at it and tossed it in the ashtray. Bobby’s eyes shined but not a tear fell. ‘I think she’s in love with another man.’ I feigned disbelief for a former schoolmate, ‘That can’t be. I massaged it for a while. It felt quitegood, but not that great. I decided what I was doing was stupid, andthen retracted my hand. I did up my trousers. I searched my memoriesand it seemed that Jenny did 'pleasure herself' quite a bit. A badhabit I thought.I looked up to see Michelle walking along the path toward me. Thank GodI had stopped what I was doing, what kind of welcome would that be. Istood up from the bench and slowly walked toward her. I could tell itwas a friend, I don't know how..