”Nick looked at me for a few seconds then said, “I don’t know, I want to but I know I shouldn’t.”“Nick no pressure, please teach me, be my...first, Look Mum and Dad are away next weekend taking John to look at University places and little sis is going to, but because it’s the tennis finals weekend I’m not going and have the house to myself from Friday night. We can play the final and then you come back and stay the night. Please, Nick, please, please do this for me, I’m begging you, please.. ”“I ... never thought about things that way,” said Paige. So much for the three of them having a lot in common.It wasn’t a long walk to the mansion the Ferrari-Stones were staying in, but it was taken in silence. The house itself stood on a cliff overlooking the ocean and was accessed by climbing a set of stone stairs. When they reached the top of the staircase, they stood at the edge of a swimming pool containing a dozen or so people with as many again walking back and forth between the pool. That should be pretty easy, being as I graduated high school with a 4.2 grade point average. My brother said that was me being an overachiever, but I was on my way to college and he worked two jobs at fast food places. In my opinion I was doing better then him. There was nothing that I had not accomplished in high school, that was not what I had wanted to accomplish ... well except one thing. ***************** My day had been that of a busy one. My entire family seemed to be here for my. To Natalie, horse riding was a chore to keep her occupied on Saturday morning, and as soon as she was old enough to rebel, she was able to give the occupation up. Not like Penny and her two girls, of course. Penny initially taught Daniel to ride and, when Penny inherited Underhill Grange, had one of the old barns converted to stables. The farm had dispensed with horses a long time before the war but it looked like they were kept in the barn at that time and was a simple matter to convert back.