Any chance Steve might ask Bob about us coming along?" Oh I don't know if I could stand having you around, but not being able to touch you." Maybe the...'d go fishing or something?" I'll ask."I felt sure that Steve would ask Bob. They were pretty good friends and liked to do things together, golfing, sports, stuff like that. You know, guy's stuff. Now I was wishing that the four of us had done more together, but maybe this would be the start of a closer friendship. Well not that close. Gag me!The. She took three quick steps, leaped over a broken patch of hull, and started climbing the main mast. The ropes wound around it were sodden and limp. Patches of slime clung and dripped down it. Many of the climbing pegs were missing or loose. The ship was a ruin. Still, Lace managed. Testing her hand and footholds was second nature now. She transferred her weight smoothly, gliding up the mast like she was part gecko. The grindylow followed her. They didn’t have nearly the same problems climbing. ”“Really! That would be great”. I must have sounded like an excited k**. Barbara laughed, flashed me that lovely smile, and turned and headed off down stairs. I drank my coffee, completed my morning ablutions then got dressed and headed to the kitchen. The smell of the bacon wafted up the stairs to meet me, and I entered the kitchen with a big smile on my face. I stopped dead in my tracks….and the smile just got bigger.Barbara had taken off the dressing gown, revealing a black, silky night. But she seemed disinterested. This was a disappointment to me, of course; this was one VERY attractive, sexy, exciting woman. She didn't seem offended or insulted at my suggestions, continued to share in conversations with me about sex and pleasure, my sexual experiences and hers as well .. but she seemed to be waiting or hoping for something else.I continued to press her about what she WAS interested in, encouraged her to be completely honest with me, that she could trust me and I wouldn't.