The main thing was to pick the right one. The girls were grouping together, but just occasionally a guy would come in and give his girlfriend a kiss a...d a hug before running off into the darkness to be an idiot with his mates again. I needed to be careful not to hit on a girl with a boyfriend, I would be in trouble from all directions.The party was still strong as it sailed past midnight and beers and mixers had become one big communal pool of stock, with people drinking whatever was handed to. You and me know the real outcome.When I started working with you I never even considered that you might assume that I was like my brother, because apart from family no-one knows both of us, we never mix socially.I smiled, though I doubt it reached my eyes. "Apology accepted." I said simply.She smiled and it most certainly reached her eyes for they suddenly shone like two stars in an otherwise empty night sky."Thank you. Now for a personal appeal. I have promised my father, who by the way does. Now he was on the carpet for it. "I guess I have been unfair to you recently," she said. "I would like to make it up to you." David let this hang in the air as he mentally fumbled for an appropriate response. He was at a loss for words. She leaned forward and wrapped her left hand around David's neck, drawing his face toward hers, and placed her lips on his. Her tongue slipped into David's mouth, and she sighed as he reciprocated. David's right hand encircled her back and pulled her closer. She hid it well, I trust?" I give her top marks for her acting. Her tan lines were the only things that gave her away." He let his gaze take in Cindy, who was breaking the pool's surface like a trout leaping for a fly-fisherman's lure. "Her daughters, I notice, still have a bit of tan line, too."To Ralph's amusement, I described the scene at the start of her trip, when she first learnt her daughters would be running around in nature's swimsuits."She must really trust you, to let her kids go off.