" I almost believe you." She walked over toward me. "Mind if I join you?"Realizing to my shame that I was about half hard and my dripping swim trunks ...weren't going to do much to hide it, I quickly said, "I was just going to take one more dive and head back in. See if anybody is online looking for a game." I swear, you live on that computer." She shook her head and laughed. "So much like your father. Go on then. It's hot."I dived in and made absolutely sure I was facing away from her when I. Ms. Hammer had a real reputation among both the students and the teachers as a stickler for strict discipline in the classroom and in her extra-curricular advising. She was a chaperone at every school dance. She coached the varsity cheerleaders and made certain they were kept away from the team during road trips. She'd even sat between the cheerleaders and me on the occasion I was invited to join them. So when the request to have a debater meet with the Superintendent of Schools was made, it. “Objection overruled!” she said, slamming her hand down as though it were a gavel. I’d forgotten just how big a Perry Mason fan Helen was since I no longer watched television, but the way she said it brought a smile to the lips of most of the people at the table.It fell to my father to remember the other concerned party here. “Jeff, I know you’ve only had your own room again for a little while, but would you mind sharing with Trish, at least until another bedroom comes free?”Would I mind. I summoned the courage to say, "Hi, yes it has been a long time, you look great!"There she stood or was it me? Yes! It was I. we moved closer then embraced, but it was more than an embrace, it was like the merging of two bodies to become one spirit. Serenity is not a word I use often but it's what I felt at that time. At that moment I was washed in a pool of a calming, relaxing, unmolested moment of peace that I wanted to hold on to for the rest of my life. We sat at the edge of a stream and.