As the party started to slowly calm down, something loud caught her attention. A big splash took place at the end of the pool. The swimmer, a young st...d in perfect condition, slowly swam in her direction. Helen thought maybe she had too much to drink. Once the young man stuck his head out near her legs, he was as real as he can get."Sorry", he said. "I didn't know anyone else was using the pool." I'm not", said Helen, "not exactly." You want to join me?" Certainly not. I haven't swam in a long. Sunrise arrived, though it brought no relief from my troubles, the sunshine barely lessening the gloom inside the vehicle or inside my mind.Morgan began insisting I sleep when I refused to eat, but I knew the events of the past twelve hours would only follow me so I kept shrugging her off. I ended up laying my head on her lap, my legs tucked up on the seat, to placate her.I still didn't sleep, even though her cool skin was comforting against my over-heated body. Sometime later, Chadwick asked. " It's cool?" she asked incredulously. "Jake, what the hell happened?" It'll be in all the gossip columns this morning if you want to read about it. Let's talk about you for a minute. What's with the luggage? Are you staying awhile?" Looks like it," she said. "I was called to a meeting with three of the partners yesterday. They gave me an ultimatum. Either I stop my outside work and go back to devoting all my energy to the firm or I'm fired."Jake sighed. "And you chose the second option?"She. It was just Dylan, Max, and myself. We usually did what young kids do, ride bikes, play games like army men with our imaginary guns and ammo, and play video games at each others houses. One day we were all really bored and it was hot outside, way too hot to do anything, so we went into Maxs house to play some video games in the air conditioning. Luckily we were all old enough to stay home alone for the day and Maxs parents werent home that day. So we got inside and quickly rushed to his room..