As I swam I felt so refreshed by the cool water. Just perfect on a hot day. After a while I went to the bar and stood in the water perusing the drinks...menu. The girl in the green bikini swam up and order two punches. ‘The punches are good, thirst quenching and not very alcoholic. Perfect at this time of day.’ ‘Sounds good. We have a walk this afternoon to a waterfall so I don’t want anything too alcoholic.’ I ordered a punch and after they were made turned to go to the table in the water. ‘Come. She should have been embarrassed with her husband obviously wanting an explanation, or angry at the unfairness of it all, or.something. But the only feeling that came over her was disappointment. In some ways, the conclusion to her problem had been her finest hour, despite the voices in her head that suggested living her fantasy had been pretty darn good. But the doctor had been firmly in her grip at the end. He had told her everything, and she had destroyed everything. At his house, in his. Ma Baylor had gone shopping and Pa Baylor had gone to a ballgame. Billy was in the bathroom playing his new game--the game that had almost overnight become his favorite pastime. It felt so good when he played with himself, so good that he saw no reason not to do it often. And though he felt a vague guilt afterwards, he pushed it aside, for he felt too good while he was doing it to ever give it up.The boys at school had made jokes about his "jerking off", but they didn't make sense to Billy.. Life had mostly returnedto normal over the following months, other than Joel's sudden withdrawlfrom the school's dating scene. He'd told people he just needed a breakfrom dating, which of course made the girls in the school blame the lastgirlfriend he'd had, despite it having been him who'd broken up with her,and she suffered for it. Joel noticed, but it seemed nothing he could saycould convince them otherwise, and so she began to resent him for it. Inall honesty, he thought to himself, it was.