” This was the kind of thing I needed. I made a note to check into specific dietary needs at my next convenience. Now my day was yielding the result... I’d come for. When I looked up, Brittany was waddling as fast as her swollen feet could take her toward the water, Ali right behind her and stripping off her top to join her. They splashed into the water and began a playful game of belly tag, grabbing each other and moving effortlessly in the warm water. I stopped to take notes of what I was. Third, the two goons atthe door would not let her leave. And fourth, the woman across the table fromLuke seemed to believe she could decide when she could leave. "It must be themob atmosphere that gets to everyone around here," she thought. Patience looked at Luke's cards and thought that the hand must be good. Shedid not gamble but she knew enough about poker to know that high cards weregood. Luke had a lot of face cards in his hand. She turned to see what the woman had but her hand was still. The ship would carryover 500 hundred people. There were 50 First Class berths, 118 Second class, and on this voyage 312 passengers in steerage. The First Class had private state rooms equal to any expensive hotel in England. Second Class traveled in smaller but still private state rooms. The passengers traveling steerage would share part of the cargo hold.There were no staterooms; just a great open expanse. Each family or group would "stake out" a section of the deck as their own. The four. The boy just stands behind her silently.“What are you up to?” she asks.“Nothing,” he replies.Candace still doesn’t stop working. She keeps plunking away on the keyboard and flipping papers. Luke starts kissing her behind her ear and massaging her neck and upper back. “Stop trying to seduce me,” she says in a teasing tone. “I’ll be all yours after I finish this.” But the boy just continues and quickly unsnaps her bra. “That was fast,” she says, responding to his kissing with a turn of the head.