As I said, Beth usually swam and then left the beach, so it was Mandy and I who played at surfing and splashed around in the water. I would just stare... at her while she was laughing, water rushing over her body and I would feel so guilty because I just wanted to fuck her right there on the beach. I always said to myself that, no matter what, I would not let this relationship go anywhere beyond “playmates.” Believe me, I had to remind myself of this constantly.I might have resisted successfully,. Then I heard dad leave.Dad took me to school. We arrived and checked in and I was assigned a young man named Asa. He helped my dad and I find my room and put my stuff in it. He gave us the tour and then my dad gave me a hug and a kiss, and left. Asa and I were left alone. He took me to his room. Asa was an Upperclassman. We talked and he told me everyone had to sign up for a sport. He says he was assigned to me because I was a swimmer, and he was captain of the swim team. He was gorgeous. He. I had known Ben’s father for some time. He asked me out, we have been together the last year or so. That’s it, really.”“That’s it? Two lovers?” Christian asked, with, it has to be said, remarkably little tact, for which he received a thump on the arm from Ben. “My apologies, Madame,” he continued, bowing his head graciously, “but you are beautiful, you are intelligent and you are very sexy. How have you had only two men in your bed, it is all wrong! Quelle scandale! You should be, . I couldn’t think very well and gave up writing, deciding to go for a drive, instead.The only place I could think to look for Karen’s car was at the mall. I had no idea what I’d do if I found it. I hadn’t planned to go looking for it when I got in mine, it just sort of happened. Unfortunately, that mall is big. And the parking lot a lot bigger. It took probably a half-hour to drive up and down every row. And her car wasn’t there.It wasn’t in front of Pauli’s house, either, so I drove home. You.