I caught her luckily one day when no one else was on and she seemed to recognize me from other comments. I started asking her about her situation. S...e hated her parents and could not wait to leave. Her step mom, she pointed out, the real one having died long ago, was horrible to her and made life a living hell. Honorable padre not much better. She had no privacy, no chance to ever go out with friends. No jeans, no fast food, none of the stuff other k**s got. Had to study constantly,. She came up for air a few moments later and asked how that felt. I told her it felt nice but being under water it didn't last long enough to enjoy it much.With the situation now settled down I swam down and grabbed my shorts off the pool bottom and climbed out of the pool. I walked over to the lounge chairs to put my shorts back on and the girls acompanied me there. As I started pulling on my shorts Ann asked if we could play around one more time before mom got home. I told her it was late and. Maybe this Ronald was another one, but I doubted it, even Mr. Fox wasn't that sneaky. Was he?"Ronald, this is Jennifer. The young lady I was telling you about," Mr. Fox smiled politely at my surprised look and gave us a little bow that would have seemed pretentious coming from anyone but him."Hi," Ronald said and he was very shy, or nervous, unwilling to look at me directly and I wondered what Mr. Fox might have told him about me."Hi," I said and there followed an awkward silence and I wished. “I think he’s mentally ill,” Candice said to Kirsten. Kirsten remained silent, neither confirming nor contesting the other girl’s comment.“Sorry, girls. That’s the way I see it. If you change your mind, we can discuss it, but I’m not going to agree to having an intimate relationship with two at the same time. That’s just not right,” Jesse said emphatically, picking up his lunch tray and heading for the door.The two young women sat silently, wondering just what had happened to their plan..