He’ll come to accept it in time. He knows you two will never get back together. You’re just going to have to be friends- ‘Jesse, he’s seeing S...arah.’ He stopped. ‘What…?’ He said weakly. I don’t even think he was in the same room with me at that minute. ‘He’s seeing Sarah,’ I repeated. ‘It was pretty wrong of us to do this, but for one thing, I already broke up with Trent, and for another thing, from the looks of it they may have been doing this longer than us.’ ‘From the looks of it? What does. .. you seem more of a man, not less. I’m not sounding right there, am I? I mean to many men’s ears. But what I meant was ... You don’t seem like a misogynist, despite what many of my friends would consider to be classic sexist behavior. For one thing, you’re wanting to stick with your ladies, keep them around, not ‘kick them to the curb,’ as you resent me supposedly doing to your father, to use your words.“I guess that I kinda cock-blocked you on some level to keep you a virgin a little longer,. Then I heard the woman below me whisper to the man lying next to her that it looked like rain, and I wondered if she knew how true that was, how hard and how quick the rain might come, and I wondered if they knew that in another hour the tide would be all the way up and they'd be cut off from the main beach. I was thinking maybe I ought to tell them this, otherwise they could be stuck half the night out here, and it can get pretty cold, and they definitely didn't have much clothes, just skimpy. Only the director and the animal handler knew the truth about his identity, so he didn't feel hurt that no one did more than pat his head and tell him what a smart girl he was. He'd have a lot to celebrate tonight, not the least of which was being able to eat something other than dog food for dinner. Even with the film finished, they had to keep up the act. Besides, the Doctor wasn't coming back until dark. So Eric was taken to the trailer to wait while the others partied. Sheba was ready to.