Episode 96: Sunny Day

She had seen him. Watched him from her window as he coolly lay down on the lounge chair and somehow managed to tip it over. She had been thinking about him ever since the party. "I hope its warm out here, I hate goose pimples, and I definitely need the tanning time, I was the only girl in Ibiza who didn’t look good in white, see they have these huge raves and...

He wasn’t listening to her, he was puzzling over how to get the radio to turn on, and there was a Barenaked Ladies simulcast that he wanted to hear. "Does this need batteries or what?"

"That’s easy," she said flicking a switch on the side. "I mean, it’s easy if you already knew," she reached across to the table. "Would you mind putting some of this sunscreen on my back? I burn, and then it flakes and my skin isn’t as soft as it normally is, it’s a real drag."

Taro’s mouth screwed up in an awkward uncomfortable silence just as Phillip walked outside. "Put some clothes on Adria, you’re not two years old anymore," he ordered.

"That’s not what you think ninety-eight percent of the time," she replied and dove in the water.

Phillip shook his head and grimaced inquisitively in Taro’s direction. "I’m just waiting for Sebastian sir, he told me to meet him here, oh, about an hour ago now, uh, sir, it’s not safe for her to be sitting cross-legged at the bottom like that, is it?"

"She’ll be back up when she runs out of air, and you’ll be gone then, won’t you son? Go find Sebastian and play with someone your own age," Phillip strongly advised.

Episode 97: This Woman Needs