Chapter 113

• When I came back outside with the towels a few minutes later, it was like watching two fighters circling around one another in the ring, each one waiting to strike the first blow, looking for an opening. The swam, or rather tippy-toed in a circle, just eyeing one another, without speaking as I approached setting the towels aside, only then beginning to undress myself...albeit nervously. Neither girl looking at me as I did.
• "So..." Bella said smiling now.
• "So..." DeeDee responded smiling back. Though it wasn't the kind of smile I'd appreciate being given.