Moira'd walked behind us, on the phone with Dr. Anna in Hawaii. The whole way there, I'd listened to Moira say such illuminating things as "Uh huh," a...nd "Yes, of course," and "Okay." My eyes, though, had been locked on Saralinda's face the whole way. I didn't relax a bit until Saralinda was lying on the bed in my arms, and Moira had ended the call, and then said, "Dr. Anna thinks we did the right thing, and that she should come around in a couple of hours. She says not to worry too, too much.. "I just move into the apartments around the corner two months ago." "Ah, Bethany," she said as she held out her hand. "Brad," I replied. "Nice to meet you, Brad," Bethany said as she walked away. I watched her as she went back behind the counter. She waved at me as she went back to work. I smiled and nodded again at her. For the rest of the day, all I could think about was Bethany and her smile. I remembered a saying my mom used to say a smile could change your whole day. It seemed like it was. We both knew that we were always going to be together. I called her 'Fish', cause she was real good at puckering up ... like a fish does when trying to breathe in the bottom of the boat after you pull it out of the water. She didn't like that name at first, but it stuck, and she got used to it.We went to our grad dance together, of course. Drove there in my really old, puke green Toyota. I loved that car. I had bought it from a scrapper and then fixed it up with stuff from Daddy's garage, or. She wanted to use and abuse our friendship to further advance her sexual education. I woke up that morning and had dressed in my usual workout shorts and t-shirt. It was cool in the apartment but I did not care. My wife had gone to her job and was working overtime to get the circuit boards corrected and ready for the engineers tests. She was responsible for the building of the prototype boards which went into the test mini-computers of Data General. She played a key role in the design and test.