What I saw?" Yes. What did you see, dear? Tell me what you saw." The... the ape..." mumbled the young blonde girl."Yes -- Rajah. But what else did you...see, Sharon? Wasn't there something else you saw in the hut?" No... no..." Of course there was," went on Lena soporifically, relentlessly. "You remember, dear Sharon. There were some booklets, weren't there? Some booklets on the table..." Booklets," Sharon repeated, and her marijuana and aphrodisia drugged mind repeated the word over and over. We had been through a lot in the past year and a half. Boyfriends and girlfriends breakups. Crying on each other shoulders. At the time we were both single. Like I said, we had become very close. Almost like brother and sister, or so I thought. One night we made plans and we told our parents we were both staying with friends but really just wanted to sneak around all night and drink to celebrate one of our last night’s together. We ended up at her grandparent’s barn and got drunk and a bit. I learned later she was five-feet-seven-inches and one-hundred-and-twenty-five-to-thirty-pounds, the perfect body for me.I struck up a conversation and it went very well. I learned she just turned eighteen and just graduated high school and was working in a buffet restaurant and had just gotten off work. After talking for about an hour or so, we agreed to meet the next evening.Lying in bed that night, I could hardly get to sleep she affected me so much. The next evening she was there right on. Tom couldn't take his eyes off the picture and that was just one moreworry. I couldn't help thinking of some guy looking at me or evenRachael with that dopy, slack-jawed expression that made me want to hithim on the side of the head with whatever was in my hands. How wasRachael going to deal with that situation? Fuck! There wasn't muchchoice. The notebook was bulkier than expected but I got him a prettygood clunk on the back of the head. It had to hurt but of course he onlysnatched the book.