Okay defense we’ll run offto the next room. I said, To late, we’re surrounded. They grabbedus both and tickled us for some time and our li...tle party brokedown into an orgy that lasted the weekend.Three months later Marlaina and I both had jobs down there andbegan the long and tiring process of moving. Marlaina had simplyhad her bosses transfer her to their corporations local Pizza placethere and I got a job in the local mall as a maintenance man.About a year later I got home to find. She judged his age to be somewhere close to hers, maybe mid to late thirties. There was something oddly familiar about his voice. ‘You’ve been watching me?’ ‘I find you to be a most beautiful woman,’ he said. Karen was flattered and intrigued. His voice was deep and his accent, although slight, was sensual. ‘Please, walk with me,’ he said, holding out his hand. Surprising herself, she allowed him to lead her down to the water’s edge. Away from the dune, and with the full moon now high. I cursed the damned brain washing for making a complete fool of me but also hid behind the border of faith for some sense of safety in the unknown with my bare butt, my anus, sticking up in the breeze utterly available and subsequently extremely well probed.I dared again, glanced, then looked around the table to see any response but I didn’t note anything. I’m sure my eyes pleaded with them but they would just look at me on occasion with a kind of inquisitiveness but mostly no emotions. I knew. "Emmy! Four teas!" Tom cried."Not too sweet for me, please," I said.A lubra brought three tin cups and an enameled mug and a bark dish of quandongs and some other snacks."Thank you," I said. We four sat quietly for a moment. I looked at Tom. "Why are you here?" Shouldn't you ask my parents?" Not funny. You came here with intent some months ago." True. It's a story. I went to the TAFE in Bourke and then Sturt in Wagga [Charles Sturt University has a branch campus in Wagga Wagga]. I studied.