I asked him if he could stay with Dar for a few minutes because I wanted to go swimming. He said he would so I ran up and got my suit on. When I came ...back down, he went back inside. The last thing I recall after that is getting up on the diving board and yelling at Dar, ‘Watch this!’ I took 2 running steps forward and jumped. When I came down on the end of the board, my feet shot straight forward and I went over backwards. I hit the diving board on my the back of my head and my back with my. Off to the restaurant they went. It was a 15 minute walk in the early dusk of the evening. Ray again expressed his regrets that he couldn't come to the cottage this weekend and asked about the cottage.Pat said, "I bought the cottage about 10 years ago as both an investment and a place to go to unwind from the pressures of the job. The cottage is just across the state line and it's on a good size lake. I am kind of a tom-boy so I can do most of the things I enjoy doing up there besides relaxing.. You're right. That doesn't make it easy. You never told me." Told you what?" How you feel about it." I don't." What do you mean you don't? How can you say that?" I knew it. I knew I should just worm out of answering." I'm sorry. I shouldn't pick on you. You're not the one I'm mad at." OK. Good night." I squeezed her and snuggled a bit closer."Jack?" Hmm." Tell me." Tell you what?" What did you think when you saw them?" I thought a lot of stuff." Tell me. Please?" OK. I thought 'Oh, Shit.' I. That’s why I was going to force it; tonight, by my own hand.Then, would you like to change the lives of those you hold dear?I hadn’t expected another message.The faces of the two women I lived with—my aunt and my younger sister—surfaced momentarily from the depths of my selfishness, but I closed my eyes to them.Aunt Riley was getting by just fine without my help, and Jessie—You’re running away from it.—was better off without a useless brother like me. I selected “no” again.There was no third.