" How very perceptive of you." Her voice dripped with sarcasm. Where didthat come from? Was she angry with me? Before I could say anything else,Kaylee...said, "You know Tabitha has always liked you."That took me by surprise, so she knew as well. Why was I always the lastone to know such things? Thinking about on it, maybe part of me didknow. Tabitha used to come over during the summer with Kaylee to hangout at my pool.For the last two summers before we graduated, Nichole had been over atthe house. She learned that Brad and Bridget had met in a coffee shop, where she'd been working. She'd consistently got his drink wrong and in the end he'd told her that she had to have dinner with him for penance. It had grown from there, and they were married, with two kids back home – grandparents babysitting while they were on the island.Then, graciously, April thought, Brad made the suggestion, "Shall we adjourn?"Bridget looked at Tom, then at Brad and then said, "How does this work? Do we all go. We were really upset.. Actually we were very excited about the trip.. We had planned so many things that we would do..We were going to spend the night together at the resort.. But all those plans had flushed down.. The morning when her people left for nagpur she asked me to meet her.. We met at a café near her place.. She was really sad.. We spoke for a while when I hesitantly asked her if we could spend time at her place.. She denied.. She was scared because of the neighbors.. I still tried to. "If you're going to do it, do it, Susan."She looked down and lifted her knee, measuring the distance. Her skirt was short and her bare knee rested against her balls. She practised the movement a couple of times, the lump in my throat growing at each gentle contact. In just a few moments I was going to be in a lot of pain and all because of that stupid bet.Her eyes grew serious and locked on mine. She raised her eyebrows and I nodded slightly. It was an incredibly intimate moment. There was a.