Fourteen "visitors", if you prefer. Eleven were from the class I'd given my first speech in. The other three were from other classes that Julia and I ...hared. I didn't know how the 'ringers' came to be here. Maybe they had some influence over Julia, or Julia over them, or some other mysterious feminine reason. Julia wasn't saying anything and I hadn't bothered asking. That all three were especially good looking might have been a factor in their being invited. It was certainly a factor in my not. He took her out to the patio, selecting a table that received some shade from a palm tree, and pulled a chair out for her. He waved to a waiter. “What would you like to drink?”“A dry white wine would be nice.”He ordered the wine and a vodka and tonic for himself.“Now do you want to eat first or to swim?”She chuckled, “You shouldn’t swim on a full stomach, or so I have been told.”“Quite right too,” he replied laughing. “That’s settled. We can have a swim and eat later. There’s changing cubicles. "I can't say too much, though I can tell you at this point that we, Danand I, are different. We have certain abilities, abilities that Dan wasusing to abuse you. I tried to fix the abuse as much as I could, but Iwanted to check on you again without Dan to see how you're doing, ifanything strange is going on with you, anything like that." Well he came by earlier today and told me he wouldn't be bothering meanymore, though he tried to make another move on me. I felt... strange,like I couldn't. "Deeper. Shi, Faster. I wanna ride your hand baby. Let me ride your fingers.”"Do it baby. Push your fingers in deeper. Move them faster for me. Faster. Deeper baby. Push them all the way in, all the way up to those gorgeous little knuckles."I heard Mandy moan, pant, and softly cry out my name. I could hear how wet she was and I pictured her kneeling on her bed, her fingers pushed deep inside her and the image of her riding her own hand drove me mad. Finally I heard her let out a muffled scream.