As I drove down main street, I decided to stop at the local ice cream store for the hell of it. I got my order and was loitering out front eating it ...hen a familiar car pulled up. It was Danielle and a friend of hers. Dani parked the car and jumped out, running up to me and literally jumping into my arms. “OMG, Sean, it’s been forever since I’ve seen you and I heard you were back in town this summer!!” Of course, she had, my mother and her mother were two of the biggest gossips in the. I went out the country, near Macroom, to pick up two girls and go to a kinky bondage rope tying workshop together, near Limerick. They were not ready, as usual, so I drove over to my favourite location in the whole world……..the beautiful Mullinhassig Waterfall, (so much better than Niagra Falls, where the view is obscured by the souvenir shop!). The area is a beautifully secluded, moss covered and magical ancient forest. The sun always penetrates through the trees, flowers and ferns, lighting. ‘You’ll get hurt again’ But her inner voice was drowned out by the tingling throughout her body, and the delicious intoxication she felt in her head, like she had maxxed out on too many Chardonnays. She had drunk one glass, well, two, and as the wine relaxed her, she savored the moment of realising that she was going to love loving this man. His eyes looked back at her. He was animated and telling her some anecdote. She wasn’t listening. She was drinking him in. Her mind was a riot of a. It was the middle of the night when we decided we needed some nourishment. We hadn’t been to sleep yet because we had been up gossiping and talking to girlfriends on the phone. After quietly gathering sodas and munchies we were heading back to my room when we heard soft moaning from down the hall. As we approached my brother’s room the moaning was louder but seemed muffled. The door to his room was slightly ajar allowing light to leak out into the hallway and allowed us to peer in; expecting to.