"NOOOO!" Kristy wailed as she jumped at Bill in an effort to reach herphone and stop the text from going through.Bill just smiled and held the phone h...gh above Kristy's head, watchingas his pest of a sister broke down and began to wail. Once Bill sawthat the message had been read he nonchalantly threw the phone on thecouch next to his sobbing sister. "Better luck next time shrimp," Billsaid with a grin as he made his way upstairs.Kristy didn't even bother looking up, she knew that Bill had. “Are you ever going to talk to me?”I shrugged, “I’ll talk to you about anything except us.”“You won’t even listen?”“To why you either deceived me or outright lied to me? It really doesn’t matter.”“What are you talking about?”“What your mom said. That wasn’t just her wishful thinking. She was responding to something you said. Something about us possibly getting back together.”Nancy looked down, “She asked if it might be possible and I said ‘yes’.”“And you announcing in front of both of them that. Inspection revealed it to be a large pond fed by an impressive waterfall, what was unique was there was no visible stream feeding pond and after a short distance the stream below the pond disappeared too.Ulric in one of the four-seat ACs dispatched to investigate reported that area was very rocky and covered with a thin layer of top soil from which the dense forest and vegetation grew right up to the edge of the pond.The water came from underground through the rocks above and, after falling. You’re a really nice guy and I had a really nice time last night. But I’m afraid you just didn’t do anything for me. I didn’t get off while we were fucking. How small is that thing anyway, three inches?”“And a half,” I corrected, not that the extra half inch made any difference in the circumstances.“We can still be friends, right? Anything else would be awkward since we work together.”“Yeah, sure,” I said, my heart sinking.Claire beamed her megawatt smile. I made the walk of shame out to my car.