The heels on the boots raised from theprevious two inches to four. The material of the costume was no longer aninexpensive T-shirt cotton. It was now ...a durable synthetic and cotton mixturethat could take the strongest wear and still keep its shape and flexibility.Steve stretched and turned, amazed at how good this new body felt. Elsbethsmiled and thought how feline the gestures were. And, at the same time, howfeminine.Steve realized it, too. "You _are_ Elsbeth," she said in amazement."And you. Through the viewfinder, he watched in horror as his best friend suddenly climbed over the rail, and with no hesitation threw herself into space, landing with a sickening thud in the hard dirt."Claire," he screamed, running toward her twisted and broken body. Even in his panic and despair at having witnessed her apparent suicide, Zach kept his word and didn't stop recording. As he neared her body he was amazed to see Claire starting to lift herself off the ground. By the time he got to her, she. I expected her to scold us for being in such skimpy outfits, but we weren’t the only girls on the beach to ever wear tiny bikinis, and we sort of fit in. It was nice not to feel like we were so different from everyone else.It was however a feeling that was not going to last throughout the day. As people started arriving in large groups and they set up camp around us, we were snickered at, ogled at, whistled at, and generally stared at by men and women for various reasons. Any age male watched. I just held her for a few moments and tried to cometo grips with what she said. How could she be in love with me? Did Imislead her somehow? I tried to think what I might have done to causethis. I wasn't freaking out and I certainly didn't hate hearing thesewords from her. It just caught me off guard in such a big way.I finally pulled away from her just enough that I could tilt her face upand look into her eyes. What I saw was a look of complete adoration. Ithought of the song called 'The Look.