Work hell; my brother would never believe the fun I was having.Elizabeth was busy sorting incoming faxes when I went behind the partition. She turned ...nd smiled at me. "Where did you take them?" she asked.How did she know it was both of them? "To mid-town," I said.Her body grazed mine as she left the work area to go back to her office. It was as slight graze, not a bump and run. If she noticed the graze she didn't show it.I managed to get back into the stream of things, answering the phone,. *I took another sip of juice as I watched the girl in the bed slowly wake up with a slow languid stretch as she fumbled around under the duvet.I glanced at the clock on the bedside table. It had just gone six and the room was still bathed in that timeless moment just before the dawn of a new day. I got up to go and stand by the bed as she pulled herself up with a long yawn before she reached out her left hand and patted the empty space next to her."Mike?" She sat there listening as she pulled. "We discussed that for a few minutes. When I'd first designed what I wanted here, especially the positioning of the shelves, I'd been thinking mostly of doing schoolwork, which is not how it's turned out. Studying college courses was currently almost entirely screen based. The easiest setup was to install both computers under my desk with the panels mounted side by side on the wall I faced, rather than have the systems on the mini-desk between my and Carol's desks. On my much larger desk, with. I noticed her and her friend sit on lounge chairs near mine and turned my attention back to the k**s. At the time, my friend Alice and I were in the pool playing with her nieces, teaching them to swim, tossing them across the pool, that sort of stuff. At some point later, the blonde in the white bikini joined our game, interacting with the k**s as well as with Alice and I. She and her friend participated in a race between two of the k**s and me. During the race, she ran into me. I apologized.