I slept well but I still had a lot to do with unpacking and setting out things to my liking. But after a few more days I began to settle in and I was ...very happy.The weather remained very calm and almost summer-like. I decided to venture off down to the pool to go skinny dipping. The water was cooler than I had felt before, giving me Goosebumps, but it was invigorating. I spent the better part of the hour after lunch padding and slipping into and out of the pool. Then I made my way back up to. ’ ‘That’s what Alan would have ordered.’ ‘God don’t say he thinks like me.’ Arch laughed. ‘Condoms?’ ‘What are they?’ ‘Lydia I can tell you this straight: you’ll become a legend around here before long. Now what about the lady things you want.’ ‘Well since you asked add a container of their most popular skin moisturiser and an ice-cream on a stick.’ ‘But the ice-cream will melt before I get back here.’ ‘It’s for you because you acted like a kid asking to see my tits.’ Arch spluttered in. " Do you have a girlfriend?" No." Are there any girls you'd like to ask out?" Not really."One day she gave Dennis a stack of books to read. They had titles like"So You Think You Might Be Gay", "Come Out Of The Closet And Into ABetter Life" and "Homosexuality For Dummies". Dennis looked at the booksbut wasn't really interested, until he came across one called "DiscoverThe Female You". For some reason this one sparked a fascination inDennis and he stayed up all night studying it. The next day he. We shook hands again and parted company. It was the strangest first date I have ever had.The next day came and I made my preparations carefully. I wanted to be ready for anything. I was as clean as I could be, inside and out, freshly shaved, and smelling like (I hoped) someone who was expecting to get laid. I was dressed casually for the outdoors and carried a jacket against the vagaries of weather in this part of the country. As it happened, it was one of those "Indian Summer" days we get in.