The wave lifted me up and let me downagain.I looked around, couldn't see Ruth anywhere. The wave had broken bythen, and the undertow was beginning to...pull at me. While I stoodthere resisting the undertow, and looking around for Ruth a bitworried, I heard her calling out from the beach. "Lucy, it wasperfect!" She was standing at the edge of the water. What a relief!"Try the next one!"WHUMP! Why not? As the wave approached, I began swimming toward thebeach. The wave splashed right over. Groups of youths cheered while some of the women clapped politely, afraid probably to admit the feelings the sexy little show had provoked within themselves.We stood up politely as the girls sat down, blushing, but giggling and still holding each other's hand."So is it fair to say that you and Molly like each other?" I said to Jenny.By way of an answer, she kissed Molly again, a long, lingering, soul-searching meeting of two soft, pliant pairs of lips moist with desire and obvious. “Did she break into your place?”“I knocked on her door.”“You don’t get to curse out landmines if you’ve gone and covered your favorite trampoline with them,” he said.“ ... wisdom.” I agreed. “Who said that - Martin Luther King Junior?”“Senior. Weird guy,” my brother said. “So, what’s the now plan?”“Um, Alex is going to meet Sam in class today and get ahold of me,” I said. “I was kinda hoping it wasn’t you on the phone.”“Well, story of my life.” He feigned wounded pride. “But I can tell you, the. Down in the bottom of the kaserne I looked around the area to find him but he was not available. So I called out anyway. “SSSSHHHHHhhhh... , “ I barely heard but saw his arm moving in the distance and I figured he was telling me to be quiet. Between two huge boilers and some distance away his form appeared with a back light beyond him creating his silhouette, his body now quite still. I watched after moving next into the shadows, aside and out of sight. Beyond him something was moving, glowing.