“ ... and Adam Watson running alongside Nicole Baker.”The applause for me may as well have not existed. Instead a sea of murmurs and concerned whi...pers crashed ashore of the stage, darkening my face with the knowledge of an impending squall.I have a tendency to go all Jack Kerouac when I’m worried, and Nicole didn’t have to hear my inner poet to understand the lack of applause concerned me.“Don’t worry, hotshot.” she assured me, grabbing my hand and squeezing it. “They’re just confused that. That wasn't really the problem though. There was a stage on the beach, and there was a piano, and there was everything else.Anita was with the Smith's for the day so all of the band plus Cheri pulled up to the pier at ten o'clock that morning with both vans and the truck full of equipment. There they found not only a stage and a piano but stacks, monitors, microphones, amplifiers, tweeters, a PA and a sound board with several people already milling around.The battle that ensued was epic. Kyle,. You, Mr Mysterious, have just risen to gold medal ranking in sexual attractiveness in 30 seconds flat. I long to touch you and I want to know if you have a hard on yet. Do you feel the same way I do? If only I could ask. “Hey Adam at long last we meet”, I say as we finally look into each other’s eyes. The undisguised magnetism becomes hard to ignore, the first time I have felt this way about meeting an online man and I have met a few. We casually stroll westwards along the well worn path from. I felt sorry for the kids, as Mrs. Green was not much use to them that day. There was precious little learning that day in my classroom. A couple of the teachers I’m closest to even asked if I was okay, and I brushed it off claiming to be just a little tired after a busy weekend.I got back from school around 4 p.m. and felt I needed a drink. So I poured myself a glass of white wine and, just as my hubby does, I put on a warm coat and sat looking out over the peaceful scene in our backyard.Now.