That alone made him a favorite. Add to that a tall, leanly muscled body, thick dark hair, liberally sprinkled with blonde above melted chocolate eyes ...hat gleamed with intelligence. High cheekbones and a thick eyelashes were kept from being pretty by a crooked nose that was testament of a well planted punch back in his wild college days. A square jaw was covered with the whiskery beginnings of a beard. When he smiled, white teeth flashed and women had been known to take third and fourth. So, I called work told them where I was and what the situation was. We left the room, got in the car and drove up the street where the all the shops were. As we got out from the car, I found the wind a bit chilly, Mandy was only wearing a sloppy joe. So, I saw the mall and directed Mandy to it. Once inside Mandy took hold of my hand and we walked around window shopping in the warmth. As we passed a jeans store I saw a large sheep skin coat on the display. So pulling Mandy by the hand we. She looked back and saw a black tentacle had extended from the pool and wrapped around it. Two more tentacles launched out of the slime and grabbed her arms before she could react. She screamed as they yanked her backwards, back into the pool.She landed on the bottom in a kneeling position with her legs held spread apart and immobile, and her arms held behind her back. The slime that coated her front side started moving, sliding off her of its own accord with no residue left behind. It. Drifting off into the haze again, I mapped the events and fondled the details of exactly how I’d arrived at my current condition.It started as a brief discussion over something trivial – color chips.She wanted to repaint the session room. Though I often spent hours pondering those very walls in states of pleasure and distress, twenty-some paint samples in varying shades of blue are not something I can pretend to remotely care about.Bored with the conversation before it began, I didn’t bother.