‘Mmmmmmm you smell nice,’ I say, and we all burst into laughter. I put my shorts on the hot rock and sit down facing them both, take another long ...draw on the beer, burp, more laughter and ask for another beer. I look over my two new friends from my vantage point, which is higher than them, as they are sitting on the sand. I raise my eyes further across to the guy lying on the beach further down and he is looking across intently. ‘Do you know him’ one inquires, ‘No,’ I replied, ‘He was there. "Sira!" shouted Daran. "Stop!"But the girl had already plunged the knife through one of the eye sockets that had been pressed close to the bars; a muffled cry of pain came from inside the cage as the bloody knife was withdrawn. Daran ran forward, reached out his hand in time to stop a second strike. With a hand on the girl's elbow, he tried to pull Sira back, but she slumped, sagging to the ground."Sira," said a worried Daran. "What were... are you alight?"The small shoulders shook. Daran. " It almost didn?t," Trina giggled. "Almost lost both pieces." Well that would have been quite a sight! You might have gotten usthrown out of here before we even got really started," she laughed.They slowly swam together to the other end of the pool and back, thensat on the pool steps and chatted. After a while they returned to thelounges and laid out letting the sun bake them dry. Time to go came sothey tossed their cover-ups on and returned to the bungalow.They sat around until time to dress. “Are you guys okay?” I asked, somewhere between amused and concerned.“Define ‘okay,’” said Josh.“Fuck,” added Louise helpfully.“I thought that we would never have an experience as good as when we shared with you guys,” said Josh, “but that – was – biblical.”“Fuck,” Louise commented.“Lou, are you all right?” I asked. I was actually starting to get a little worried I had done something to her brain.“Promise me,” she said finally, to my relief, “that we can do that again.”“Not tonight,” I said,.