"I'll be there soon," Hope promised, and Shawna nodded without turning. "Keep him warm for me." Sorry, Hope," Yvonne said as the bedroom door closed. ...I didn't mean to drag her into it." You didn't drag her," Hope pointed out. "She came and sat down knowing what we were talking about because she can probably help more than I can. She understands some of what you feel." All of it, probably." I don't think so," Hope disagreed. "What you went through was unique — both of you, I mean. Her. So we got dress – the gay guys too a lot longer than the bi guys of course and we all agreed to be wearing speedos under our pants/jeans.Then we went out – I wasn’t really that hammered so I wasn’t quite in the mood to dance when we first went out but the other guys were. None of the places in Breck are all that gay but Kip and the Denver boys were tearing upt he dance floor and I ended up talking to a few different girls at the bar. Nothing too crazy but they did love my Aussie accent – which. ..”“I know. That’s sweet, Yelka. But go with Master Jerry; after making sandwiches, that is.”We have two boats; a fourteen foot, clinker-built, gunter-rigged, centre-board sailing dinghy which the girls learned to sail and use to cross the lake for school (and explore the lake), and a thirty foot launch which can sleep up to four and has all the facilities you’d expect. Sally and I went with the girls to learn to sail when they came to us, and I took a power-boat course; Sally was already. She came down the drive. I opened the front door and ushered her in.Now the boot was on the other foot! I grinned to myself as I anticipated Lisa and her bit on the side trying to pretend they didn’t know each other. Simone had already left it too late to admit she’d been here before, of course.“Hellooo,” I called. A couple of seconds later I heard Lisa open her study door upstairs.“Back early agai...” She started then stopped, at the top of the stairs looking down at me with Simone in the.