’The town manager who had been present and witnessed all, took me aside, “Did you mean it about that hole?”“It’s tempting,” I said. Then w...e discussed other business.Preparations for what we conceived to be needed for the defense of the Compound were being made. It was thought that we could hold the Compound indefinitely, with little additional fortification. But, it was the Japanese empire we were talking about, and they would want us out, bad.We would be under siege for the better part of four. There was one person there lying on a sun lounger with the back rest up at about 45 degree. She waved to me – it was Sarah so I went and joined her. Wearing a nice bikini – nice body I thought, very trim and a nice friendly face. “ Good morning “ I said. “ Nice to see you again “ she said. Placing a sun bed closer to her, I took off my T shirt and dropped my shorts to lie on the sunbed. I was 5ft 11 and reasonably well built from earlier years of rugby and a lot of swimming and surfing and a. But I wouldn’t.Jess led the group to an area about two hundred feet from the water. There was a ring of beach rocks that made up a crude fire-pit. There was a stack of lumber on the side of it.The lumber wasn’t luck; Jess and I had staked out the site the day before and planted it there, knowing that we wouldn’t be able to load the cooler and a huge stack of wood into the limo. There was a chance that someone else would have found it before us, but it was still there when we arrived.The guys. Susie also was 17, but closer to 18. Susie had lost her father to anindustrial accident when she was 10, so she knew what we were goingthrough. She and Tina became friends, and I was their collective littlebrother.Given our situation, I should have seen my summer of femininity coming.Tina and Susie were beautiful, stylish young women. They loved clothes,makeup and all things you would expect a 17-year-old girl to like. Theytolerated my presence with them, to the point that it almost.