They are the same age as us, but Ethan is two years younger than our youngest child. He was just turning sixteen at the beginning of summer and gettin... ready for his junior year in high school, when our daughter was leaving for college.Some of our neighbors looked down on us for being such good friends with a black family, but that just reinforced our desire to be close to them. It had to look a little funny when people saw us together, though, especially in bathing suits. Sean and I are both. "David wasn't too happy about that, but figured that half a loaf was better than none. They piled into Ken's X5 and went to the shop, digital camera and video camera in hand, to document what had been done. Ken joked that they should call the police, but David didn't laugh."You don't want them back here," he said. "There'd be too much opportunity to, shall we say, find evidence that might have been missed earlier. In fact, if I were you, I'd try to find some way to get a dog in here. Who knows. "No problem"The next few days were quite in the office. And somehow I didn't mind Andy as much as I did before.It was Friday morning when Andrew burst into the office."Guess who Amanda has left in charge whilst she stuck in America?" He said excited, as if he'd just been announced King."Pfft, we'll see whether she regrets that decision or not when she sees the outcome" I mocked"I'm heading off for lunch, you want anything?" I asked attempting to be kind."I see. Bribing the boss, eh. You're not. We must have walked about 2 miles along the sandy strip before getting to a wider section of beach which rose back into little dunes where one or two couples were sunbathing. Some traders were walking along selling their wares and a sprinkling of other black Caribbean guys were just hanging about chatting to the tourists and trying to mooch a cigarette or even a drink from the few foreigners. We noticed another couple from the hotel bungalows lying there and walked up to talk to them."Hi," I.