"He nodded and the next day we swam both clad in more conventional attire. I had on a small two piece. Not quite a string bikini but it did show quite... a bit. Erik's was not the long, baggy type either. It wasn't a French cut but it did fit closely and covered only from the waist to the tops of his thighs. Several times I caught myself staring at him and I noticed him quite often studying my own body.Nothing untold happened in the lake. Oh, three was some touching and a bit of kissing, but that. What are you thinking now?" I asked, part of me thinking maybe I didn't want to know. Brett's response was pulling me up to stand, right in front of the window. My eyes quickly averted towards the kitchen, and I felt at least some relief when I couldn't see anybody there. I could hear distant voices though, and figured that they must be in another room and had forgotten to turn off their kitchen light. Maybe they were in their living room... Yes, that's it, I told myself hopefully, and they're. I needed a hell of a lot more money to do that, so I had better start converting steel into gold as fast as I could move. The first thing I needed to do was to locate a supply of steel. I had been using nails, but I remembered that there were several places in and near Auburn that did machining, so they would have scrap steel in the form of metal cut away when they were making something. I should be able to buy that scrap from them at a fraction of what I was paying for nails, and I would be. Glancing higher, Lee noted the bandage that had been applied just below Bob's hair line in back. The bruising and the Betadyne ointment that the EMTs had applied when they had treated Bob at the site and by the ER techs here when the two of them had arrived to check on Madison's condition and treatment caused the discoloration around it.Lee tried to fold his own arms and catch a bit of rest but, when he did, he felt a lump in his shirt pocket. That was when he realized that he still had.