"James sucked his lip and hesitated for one moment before pushing his card into the slot. The system seemed as though it was thinking. James's fingers...hovered over the key pad waiting for it to asking him to enter his PIN. The prompt never came. "REFERRED" the display over the key pad said."Oh," said Becky, looking at her own screen. There was a pause. "Ah. I'm sorry. It seems, ah, these opportunities have closed." All of them?" So it, ah, seems. Sorry. I don't have anything else either."James. As I am enjoying a few moments of calm water, I suddenly realise that four guys have caught up from behind. They are in their early twenties, I guess. They are messing about, making a lot of noise. My rubber ring has slowed to a stop in quiet pool, and they swim level with me. I try to ignore them, but they seem keen to be annoying. “Hey...do ya want us to pull you down the river?” one of them calls out. “No thanks. I’m okay here,” I reply. “Aw...she don’t want to play with us.” They start. It was fun watching them dance around, with their breasts swaying and bouncing, as Adam and I drank our beers. He gave me another one as soon as I finished the first.Jerry came over to talk with us for a little while, and he looked me over before saying, “You weren’t lying about this pretty, young thing, Adam. Are you sure that she’s old enough to be out here with these raucous goings on?”Adam seemed proud to have me with him and responded, “Yeah, no kidding, man. I’ve been watching her and. I doubt you care anyway.” “I told you to tell me. I care about the well being of all my crew.” She avoided looking him in the eye when she muttered “family.” “You miss your family?” he said eyeing her carefully “No you clod,” she spat turning her face to his, her green eyes flashing angrily. “I’ll never have a family thanks to you and your stupid crew.” “You could still have a family,” the captain said quietly running a calloused finger gently down the side of her face, “you know I want you.