Kim's good fortune, I knew, had contributed to bringing Tess out of her brief depression. All of us were happy about Kim's relatively high finish.But ... knew Tess also would be motivated by Kim's good play. Ton 'a Tits Tess was naturally competitive. I knew she would bust her butt in the effort to perform better in the coming week, no matter how strongly those island winds continued to blow.Our new hotel was a small step down in class from Turtle Bay Resort, but nobody was going to confuse it. A sight that was very familiar. His body was great, but then again, so was mine. This was the first time i'd seen him wearing a normal pair of board shorts instead of our ultra tight speedos, and the damn guy was still bulging a slight bit. "Hey bud what's going on" he said to me as I walked out the back door"Nothing much, just ready for some grub and swimming with my bud" I joked"Hope you don't mind, my Dads home today and wants to come swimming" he told me"Nah b*o it's fine, he seems like a. Two more Forsworn guards fell to our arrows while traversing the smaller passages. This opened up into a huge room, where the pirates had kept some ships at one point, and we killed another two guards standing at the exit.Evidence of the rockfall that had closed the cavern was also evident here, with one ship visible beneath the waters, the hole in it quite visible from where a boulder from the ceiling had fallen straight through it. Another ship was anchored to a wooden scaffolding, with. "Let's get going," mom told me gently. "If you're still interested ingetting your nails polished later, we can stop for a manicure." Fromthe look on mom's face, I think she was likely to use that as excuse toget a manicure anyway.I felt extremely self-conscious to go out in public for the first timeas a girl. Intellectually I knew that I looked like a pretty girl andthat I was even wearing the right clothes. However I kept feeling likepeople would point to me and laugh, though no one did.