” “You must have had plenty of lovers over the years.” She started to laugh loudly. I had no idea what she was finding so funny. “No. Actua...ly I’m a virgin. I’ve never had sex ever in my whole life. I always wanted to get married, but never did. Years had passed and I never did have a lover. When I was a younger girl, I was obese and nobody wanted to have me as their lover. Later in life, I lost all my weight, but by then, I was a committed virgin.” “That’s quite a story, Clara. I find you. He knew He wasnt going to get anything but humiliated that night. Brandi came to me,and right off got on her knees and bowed to me, right in front of the whole club. She asked me to be good to her Please, because she was still sore from two nights before when she was at a party we had and she had taken 18 brothers. I just laughed and said that we would see, but first she had to be punished for bringing her thing with her. She started crying and saying she was sorry but couldnt get away. We went in so Linda could give me a little, and turned on the light, at HER insisting. She always enjoyed sex more with the lights on. We both stripped, and went 2 or 3 times in various positions. The last time, she heard a noise coming from the back wall. I had failed to tell her that sometimes people went there to smoke pot, or other taboo reasons. There was a lean-to that the Vietnamese took their breaks in during the day. I told her there was, most likely, someone back there, possibly. They were both at that brief stage of life where being beautiful was effortless. Youthful hormones set their daily agenda. The room they shared was at the top of the house. Vast beams and stone slabs formed the roof. Here they slept, made love and when he was gone from the room, Cressida shed her private tears. Every morning, she leaned over the windowsill and watched the boy swim out, far beyond the lighthouse and into the bay. It was his physical presence that had begun all this. His casual.