Her parents had asked Matt, a seventeen year old that was friends with the family, to watch Maddie for the evening. Matt and Maddie had met before, so...he wasn’t a stranger. However, it had been a while since they had seen each other. Maddie had never had a crush before, but when Matt walked in the door that night her heart felt like it was going to burst through her chest. Matt was on the basketball team at high school, so he was relatively well known by students throughout the school system.. With a sudden resolve I pulled on my swim trunks and blinking at the intense rosy light shuffled through the sand to the empty beach. There was a cool breeze with a faint hint of the heat to come as I dove into the softly breaking waves and swam out a quarter mile or so. Taking a right turn I swam parallel to the hotel grounds for about twenty minutes and then back to the brush covered dunes that offered such a contrast to the manicured grounds that the four hundred a night paid for.Lurching. Or the time we drove with the diplomat from DoD?That weak moron shit that persistently had to pee?You played many things and many a mellow track...translators now sing Sinatra tunes deep in Iraq.With sunglasses on and shemaghs worn on our gear,you brought us to the Green Zone where we always had a beer.The whole team loved you as we traveled about,no malfunctions nor anything to pout.Remember that time we went someplace classified?Working for the Bear where we damn near died?You were strapped. But, Kareena thought, any girl thinking that way was simply jealous she wasn’t getting to be slutty with the hot guitarist. Not that Kareena was going to. She was indulging in some cultural exploration, that was all.“Where are we going?” She felt vaguely panicked as he took her down a side corridor off of which was storage space and the bar’s kitchen. His return-grip on her hand was light but insistent. Those nimble fingers were strong enough to crush hers, and she wondered how true he’d be to.