" We headed for the shower. We didn't fool around. I helped her with her thick dark hair, she scrubbed my back. We got all sparkly clean, and I realiz...ed as we dried off and dressed, that I didn't have any urges to take her to bed. Apparently the shower had been enough."Meet me for lunch tomorrow?" she asked. Her date was cleaning up, while mine was making Tabitha squeal with delight."Want to meet at 11:30 or noon?" If we meet at 11:30 we'll avoid most of the crush." True."About then my date. ’ he said. ‘What do you want to hear?’ she said. ‘Whatever, sorry, I’ll be out in a minute.’ She forgave him and looked at his CD case. It wasn’t her music but she had seen worse. Her mind and heart wandered together as she thumbed through the pages. Before, she had been in turmoil, her heart had been unsure until only now. Now that she was here she knew as well as he did that the past was gone. The future would be made between them, something vibrant and new, not the shadowy pains she had. . and this was the really scary part, Pteri was certain reality had changed.Pteri rested her head on her arms and shut her eyes. The almost constant sense of foreboding that had been plaguing her for the last few days had steadily increased until it had given her a splitting headache. Somehow, she knew that something very bad indeed was about to happen.Almost as if summoned by her very thought, the door to the hut opened noiselessly, revealing a hulking shape that nearly filled the doorway from. “I just feel so satisfied, I wish I could wrap my legs around the whole world.” “Come on, dream lover,” Vanessa suggested, after we had gathered our breath for about ten minutes, “let’s go for a midnight dip.” As we walked down to the beach, we looked up at the stars and the almost full moon above us. Sexual catharsis had left us feeling loose-limbed and at ease in our naked bodies. But it had also set free our minds. No longer focussed on our own unmet desires, they reached out to embrace the.