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I woke up, feeling bad about what I had done yesterday, and how I had treated Lori. I lay for a while in bed, thinking of how I should have handled things better; not jumping to conclusions and accusing her of trying to deceive me. Still, what was done was done, and no amount of wishing otherwise would change it. As I got up, I saw the two notes from Lori on my desk, and as I read them again, I felt even worse.

I was about to screw the notes up and toss them away, when I changed my mind and put them in the drawer of my desk with other cards and letters that I kept. I wasn’t sure why I wanted to keep them, but I just felt it would be wrong to toss them away.

After I had a quick shower and breakfast, I went outside to the pool and started to get the leaves out of the water. The day would warm up by lunchtime, and the pool would be a great way to cool off. I was almost tempted to have a quick swim once I had finished, but Megan was due soon, and I wanted to move the Rhodes into the family room next to the piano. I had just finished putting away my breakfast things when Megan arrived; a few minutes early, and I hadn’t had a chance to move the Rhodes.

“So, how was the romantic cruise?” she asked. “Lots of passionate bonking?”

“Well, it didn’t end well at all,” I said, rather tersely.

“Oh, I’m sorry, you broke up?” she asked, and I nodded silently. “I’m really sorry about that, I shouldn’t have been so nosy.”

“Well, you weren’t to know, but I just don’t feel like talking about it at the moment,” I said. “Now, I was going to move my Rhodes out here, next to the other piano, where there’s more room.”

“No need to worry, don’t you have a tape deck in your bedroom too?” she asked. “I’ve got some tapes we can play and work with.”

We went into my bedroom, and Megan hung her dress for the evening up on the back of my door, and pulled out a pile of music and tapes from her bag. We spent the next few minutes going through those, discussing how we could arrange various pieces, and listening to the first track on the tape.

We decided to work through the songs that Megan would sing by herself, and by eleven felt that we had several of them in a good enough state to polish off with the others tomorrow afternoon. Once we started practicing, the troubles of the previous day quickly passed from my mind. Megan quickly picked up the style and sound of our playing, and her voice was very good.

“Should we take a break, maybe have a swim, and then lunch?” I asked.

“That sound’s good,” Megan replied. “My voice needs a rest, anyway. We can try the duets after lunch, if you want.”

Megan peeled her tee shirt and shorts off; she was wearing her bikini underneath her clothes. I took my swimmers into the bathroom to get changed, and grabbed some towels for the two of us.

We spend a lazy hour in and around the pool, and then went inside for lunch. Megan was excited to see I had got things for her, and she even convinced me to have some yoghurt as well.

“Well, shall we get back to it?” I asked, once we had finished eating.

“Yes, let’s try some of those duets, we can’t keep putting that off,” she replied.

We decided to start with “Unforgettable”, with us singing each line alternately, combining for the final lines. After a few goes, we had the timing and pitches right, but it still lacked something. Technically, we had it down pat, but it somehow didn’t convey the emotions that it should.

“What if we double the instrumental break, get Paul and Phil to do a solo each, and we dance on the stage?” she suggested. “We have to work out how to get the emotions over.”

“That’s an idea,” I replied. “I don’t know what’s missing, though, how about we try another one, see how that sounds?”

We spend another hour working on several other duets, “Baby Its Cold Outside”, “These Foolish Things”, “Hey There”, and all of them eventually sounded okay, but there was still that something missing – there wasn’t any ‘magic’ to our performance.

“I don’t know, Megan, what are we missing?” I eventually said in desperation. “The music’s right, we are in key, the timing’s good, but it doesn’t sound right.”

“Let’s take a break, have another swim, and then get ready for tonight’s show,” she suggested. “No sense in pushing ourselves, today’s the first day we have tried working together.”

“Yeah, that’s a good idea,” I said. “We won’t have to leave here for two hours, but let’s have a rest.”

The pool was very refreshing, and we swam around for a bit, before getting out and lying in the sun against the back wall.

“This is lovely here,” Megan said. “So private, and with the views out over the trees. I bet I could even take my top off, and no one would see. Well, no one but you, I mean. Have you, or any of the others sunbathed topless or nude out here?”

“Well, um, I...” I stammered.

“So you have then?” she replied. “With Cathy and Lori? Probably more than just lying in the sun, I bet.” I nodded sheepishly.

“But don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone. Or take my top off yet, not today,” she added. “But you are topless, so I could...”

“No, there’s no need for you to remove your top,” I said. “You will get me all distracted, and I won’t be able to concentrate on the music tonight, I’ll be thinking about you topless instead!”

“Maybe that might do something good,” Megan said, laughing. “But you will sing ‘these boobish things’, not ‘these foolish things’, and keep staring at my boobs!”

“And you would slap my face for doing that, too,” I said. “One way to amuse the audience, I guess.”

“Oh, don’t worry, I wouldn’t slap your face for that,” she replied. “But I guess we don’t want any additional distractions, do we?”

I closed my eyes, and leant back against the wall, enjoying the feeling of the sun on my body. I tried not to imagine Megan topless – or even naked – but it didn’t work, in my mind I could see her, standing in front of me, stark naked, her hands cupping her round breasts. I shook my head, and opened my eyes, trying not to look at Megan.

“Besides, I think you are distracted enough, without me taking my top off,” she continued, looking down at my groin.

Shit! My thoughts had betrayed me; my prick was erect, making a large and very obvious bulge in my swimmers. I shifted position, and tried to cover it up.

“Don’t be so bashful,” she laughed at my distress. “I take that as a compliment, now if all I have to do is suggest taking my top off, that’s pretty good!”

“What makes you think I was thinking about you?” I said, still embarrassed.

“Just intuition, that’s all,” she replied. “And you were thinking about me, weren’t you?”

I just nodded, and then stood up, and dove into the pool. Hopefully the cool water would make my prick shrink.

I swam to the far end, and stood up, looking back at Megan. She poked her tongue out at me, calling out “spoilsport”. She then stood up, and in a flash, whipped her bikini top off, and dove into the pool, coming up just in front of me. As she surfaced, the water streamed from her lovely breasts, and I noticed her nipples were quite erect. Her breasts were large; well, larger than Cathy or Lori, perhaps the same size as Janelle’s. The skin around her nipples was dark and wrinkled, and each nipple was hard and erect.

“You can’t get away that easily, Will Morris,” she said, moving close. “Just don’t make any slips of the tongue tonight, thinking about them!”

I tried to think of a way to get out of this, without offending Megan. She was attractive, and seeing her breasts was keeping my prick hard, but I didn’t want to start anything, not now. Just as I was about to say something, she turned around, and swam back to the other end of the pool.

She sat on the edge of the pool, cupping her breasts in her hands, smiling at me.

“You had your chance then,” she said. “I don’t show my boobs to just everyone, you know.”

While I slowly swam back to her end, Megan put her bikini top back on; making sure each breast was covered properly. She then winked at me, and rubbed her hands over her breasts, emphasising how erect her nipples were.

“I guess some other day,” she said. “By the way, I haven’t shown my boobs to anyone at all, until now. Not even topless on the beach.”

“Well, thank you,” I said. “Um, they are pretty good, not that I’m a real expert, I guess. But I don’t want to, well, you know, not at the moment...”

She reached down, and squeezed my hand.

“I know, I’m just teasing you,” she said. “I’m glad you like them, anyway – they’re not too big? I guess you prefer smaller ones, like Cathy and Lori.”

“Um, well, they’re not too big, they’re pretty nice actually,” I replied, feeling my face burning. “I mean, big is like Gina, and she shows those melons off to everyone, that’s a turn off for me. It makes me feel nice, you saying no one else has seen your boobs.”

“It was just a spur of the moment thing,” she replied. “Taking my top off, and showing you. I didn’t mean to put you on the spot, or try to come on to you, well, you know...”

I nodded my head, not sure what to say.

“I didn’t want to ... I mean, you’ve just broken up with Lori, haven’t you?” she continued, and I nodded again. “Well, you probably don’t want another serious relationship, and I don’t want one either, I mean, not like, well, you know.”

We both looked down, slightly embarrassed about what we had done and said. After a brief pause, I got out of the pool.

“Maybe we should think about getting ready,” I suggested. You can have a shower first, if you want, while I pack the stuff in my car.”

We wandered back inside, leaving our towels over the clothesline to dry. Megan went into the bathroom, and I heard her turn on the shower. I unplugged the Rhodes and amp, and started to pack things up, ready to load them into the car. Just as I was about to take the first load out, I heard Megan call out to me.

“Will, is my small bag there?” she said. “It’s got my clothes and underwear, and other stuff in it, can you bring it here, I forgot to grab it, and I’m all wet.”

I found her bag, and took it to the bathroom door. As she opened it, I got another look at her breasts, and just the top of her pubic hair. She smiled as she took it from me, and closed the door. I tried to put the image of her naked body from my mind as I finished packing the car, but it was difficult.

Once I had my equipment loaded in the back of my car, I pulled my clothes out of the closet. I decided I may as well get changed here, rather than wait until I got to the Mirage. Megan came back to the room, wearing a long black dress, low cut and tight around her waist and backside, and when she saw me, twirled around.

“Will this keep your mind on my boobs?” she said, laughing.

I groaned, and rolled my eyes.

“Are you wanting me to come out with lines like ‘these boobish things’? I said.

“No, but I would like it if I felt you were thinking things like that about me,” she replied. “I had some ideas in the shower – about the duets, not those ideas,” she added. “I need to think more about it, get things clearer, but it is all about what we are thinking about as we are singing. We can work on it more on Monday, once I’ve sorted it all out.”

“Ok, maybe tomorrow at the rehearsal we can work through some of the other songs, and give ourselves a break on the duets,” I replied. “But we’ve got to do something to get them right; we suck badly at the moment.”

I went to the bathroom, and had a shave and shower, washing my hair. I had forgotten to take my clothes in to the bathroom with me, so I wrapped my towel around myself, and went back to my bedroom. Megan was sitting at my desk, looking through some music, and stood up as I entered.

“I guess I had better let you alone to get dressed,” she said, and slipped out of the door.

Once I was dressed, we drove up to the Mirage, and started to set my equipment up. The others arrived a few minutes later, and we made some minor rearrangements to the stage layout and the microphones to include one for Megan, since she would be playing with us tonight. When she wasn’t singing, she would play either the sax or trumpet, next to Paul.

The evening went particularly well, Megan fitted in perfectly with our playing, and I managed not to get distracted by thoughts of her breasts while I was singing. As we were packing up at the end of the night, Megan asked me if I could drive her home.

“Of course, I assumed I would be, since you’re on the way home,” I replied. “Do you want me to pick you up tomorrow for rehearsal?”

“If you don’t mind,” she replied. “I don’t want you to think I expect you to pick me up and drive me everywhere.”

“Why not?” I replied. “I mean, your place isn’t out of my way, and we can talk about things on the way.”

As we drove back to Megan’s place, she asked me how I thought it sounded with her playing with us.

“I think we sound much better with you with us,” I said. “With both you and Paul on horns, it gives more depth, just a better backing sound, if you get what I mean.”

“I’m glad, I was worried that I wouldn’t fit in properly,” she replied. “But I loved playing; I’m still all worked up from it. Is that how you feel afterwards?”

“Yes, sometimes when I get home, I can’t get to sleep for a while,” I said. “Probably the rush of adrenaline or whatever.”

“Yeah, well, it feels more than that to me,” she replied. “It’s almost like ... well, just very exciting, I guess. I wonder if I will feel the same after tomorrow night?”

I dropped her off at her place, and she squeezed my hand, as she was about to get out of the car.

“Thanks for everything today Will, it was great playing with you, even if we didn’t get the duets right,” she said. “We’ve got all next week to get those working properly, anyway, and I think I have some ideas that will help.”

“Yeah, remember last year, with that thing we did for the school concert, that took us ages to get working,” I replied. “I guess once we got into costume, that made it start to work properly, we really got into the feel of the song, and you did look cute in that old fashioned wenches’ outfit.”

“And you looked cute, too,” she replied. “But that’s along the idea of what I’ve been thinking, how to get into the feel of things.”

“Tomorrow, about twelve thirty then?” she asked, and I nodded.

Just before she slid out of the car, she leant over, and kissed me on the cheek.

When I got home, I didn’t bother unpacking the car; my equipment could stay there until tomorrow, as I would only have to pack it up again before going to the rehearsal. As I had a shower before getting into bed, I wondered what Megan’s idea was about getting our duets working properly. It was going to be fun working with her, I thought, she was a good singer, better that I was, I felt, and she would push me to improve. As long as she didn’t show her breasts to me quite so often...

I enjoyed sleeping in on Saturday morning; I didn’t really have anything to do; while the grass was getting a bit long, I had planned to do the mowing on Sunday. I spent an hour or so practicing for the next piano exam, then swam twenty or so laps of the pool. By the time I had finished lunch, I was feeling very relaxed, and looking forward to practicing with Megan again.

She was ready for me when I got to her place, and she put her dress on the back seat, and slid in next to me.

“Any more clues on what your suggestion is for the duets?” I asked.

“No, wait until Monday,” she said. “It’s something that I want to talk about with just you, not with the others around. Besides, I have to work on my ideas a bit more.”

“Humph,” I snorted. “Trying to tease me, I bet.”

“Well, not this time,” she replied. “You may think what I will suggest is silly, and I want to make sure it comes over in the right way.”

“Ok, I can wait until then,” I said. “It’s probably better we sort all of that out with just the two of us, before we work in with the others.”

At the rehearsal, we worked through all of the songs that Megan would sing, making minor changes to arrangements, and adding some extra instrumental sections in several of them. The main set we spent time on was what Bruce called the “bobby sox box set”, the bunch of songs from the late 50’s and early 60’s. While we couldn’t match the original sound of some of the songs, we modified the arrangements, adding more instrumental breaks. Bruce suggested that while Paul and Phil played solo sections in the middle of “Da Do Run Run”, Megan and I danced across the stage.

We tried some moves, and once we stopped laughing enough to concentrate on what we were doing, it actually looked pretty good, at least from what the others said. For that set, Megan would wear a skirt and top more in keeping with that era, and as I spun her around, she said the skirt would flare out.

“Just remember to wear good knickers,” Bruce called out. “We don’t want to get raided by the vice squad!”

“No chance of that,” Megan said. “Besides, the skirt won’t get that high!”

We spent some time working out some of the revised sets, trying to balance out the singing between Megan and me. For the first few weeks, I would still do the bulk of the singing, until Megan’s voice had become use to the workload. Once we were all happy with the new arrangements, Bruce promised to have the set lists typed up ready for next weekend.

Finally, it was time to head up to the Mirage. Once we had set up, it was time for a shower and to get dressed. One thing we hadn’t worked out was having only one dressing room and shower – it had never worried us guys, but with Megan, we had to let her go first.

The evening went even better than the night before; Megan had got over her nerves, and took a several solos, earning applause from the audience. Of course, we made sure we introduced her properly, and told people that next Saturday night, she would be singing as well.

As we drove home, I asked Megan if she was still as worked up as she was after last night’s performance.

“Oh, even more,” she said. “Getting the applause, having the rest of you get me to play solos, it was such a buzz, I’m still all, you know...”

I looked across at her, and her face seemed to be glowing, her eyes bright. Maybe she found it arousing, a turn on? I felt there was something that she wasn’t telling me, perhaps that was it.

“Well, you were great tonight, imagine how you will be feeling this time next Saturday, after you have been singing,” I replied.

“After we have been singing together,” she said, emphasising the ‘we’. “God, I don’t know how I will be; I’m nervous and excited all at once.”

“Well, we have all week to get that right,” I said. “Should we aim for working all day, Monday to Friday? We can take breaks up around the pool, so it’s not like eight hours solid every day.”

“You don’t mind me coming over every day?” she asked. “But let’s aim for that, anyway, we want to make sure we have everything perfect.”

“I don’t mind you coming over every day, not at all,” I replied. “Even if we don’t practice, it’s good having someone around.”

“Yes, there’s not much else around at the moment, except for the beach,” Megan said. “I like your pool, anyway, it’s much more private, and I don’t get sand up everywhere.”

“It’s a date, then,” I replied. “Five days of music and relaxing around the pool, it sounds like a real holiday.”

“Done, it is a real holiday,” she said. “I’ll call you tomorrow night if I will need you to pick me up on Monday morning.”

We were now parked outside her place, and she kissed me on the cheek again, before getting out.

“Until Monday, then,” she said softly. “We can work on the duets together.”

“Sure, I will be interested to hear your ideas, I guess no clues until then?” I asked.

“No, no clues, be patient,” she added, and gave my cheek another quick kiss before leaving.

I slept in on Sunday morning, and when I woke up, I lay in bed for a while, listening to the sounds of the birds outside. Finally, I got out of bed, had a shower and breakfast and decided to mow the grass. I started out the front, and had that finished before the day became too warm. I had done part of the back yard, when I decided it was too hot to continue, and dove into the pool to cool off. I was lying in the sun when I heard the phone ring, so I rushed down inside to answer it.

“Will? It’s Lori here,” she said. “How are you?”

“I’m fine, I was just up lying around the pool,” I replied, panting slightly. “Are you feeling better, you know, about the other day?”

“Oh, I’m okay, I guess, it’s probably all for the best that we, you know, didn’t get more involved,” she replied. “Look, I rang to see if you want to come round here for lunch and a swim; Janelle will be over, and maybe all three of us can get back to being friends?”

“Well, if you want to, that would be good,” I said, a bit unsure. “I’m not doing much; I just have to finish mowing the grass, so I could be over in about an hour, if that’s okay?”

“That will be great, Janelle’s going to bring some fish and chips, so I’ll tell her to being some for you,” Lori said. “I’m looking forward to seeing you, and Janelle is too. See you soon, then.”

I decided to finish the mowing, to get it out of the way, and also to think about what the afternoon might hold. I was actually looking forward to seeing both Lori and Janelle again, but apprehensive about what they might say, or do. But I wanted to maintain my friendship with both of them, and vowed to keep things light and friendly with them.

Once the mowing was finished, I swept up around the pool, and dove in to swim a few laps to cool off, and wash the dust and bits of grass from me. Ten minutes later, I was out of the shower, and dressed, with my swimmers wrapped in my towel, ready to head over there.

As I pulled up in the driveway of Lori’s place, just next to Janelle’s car, I was still apprehensive about how things would go. Lori had said they were both looking forward to seeing me, but I wished ... No sense in avoiding the issue, I told myself, and it would be better to get any unresolved problems out of the way now, before were back at school.

Both Lori and Janelle were inside, in the kitchen, just starting to serve the fish and chips Janelle had bought. As soon as they saw me, they jumped up, and rushed over to greet me.

“It’s great to see you again,” Janelle said, hugging me. “Despite what Lori said, I didn’t think you would want to see me.”

“Whatever gave you that idea?” I said. “Both of you are still two of my best friends, at least I hope you are. Now, where’s that food? I’ve been working all morning!”

Janelle disentangled herself from me, and we sat around the breakfast bar in the kitchen, devouring the food. We then moved outside, around the pool, and spent the afternoon talking, swimming and relaxing. Janelle told us about her work at the clinic, fortunately not getting too graphic about helping clean and stitch up cuts, and helping with minor surgery. Lori talked about the racing clinic that she would be doing over the next five days, while I talked about what was happening with the group, and trying to work Megan into the line-up.

It was a very relaxing, enjoyable afternoon; much like the three of us shared earlier in the holidays, before Christmas. There was no mention of what had transpired between us over the last few weeks, no sexual teasing; just three friends relaxing on a summer’s afternoon. It was almost as if the last few weeks had never existed, something that seemed slightly surreal, but I didn’t want to mention anything about what had happened between us, and I guess neither Lori nor Janelle did either; as we probably all felt embarrassed about how we had each acted.

Around five, Janelle said it was time she left to get home, and I decided I would head off, too, after helping Lori clean up.

“Thanks for coming over today, really, it was good for all three of us to be together,” Lori said. “I know we deliberately avoided mentioning anything about what happened, but...”

“Well, no sense in bringing that up,” I replied. “Thanks for asking me over, Lori, it was a great afternoon. I hope you have fun on your course next week, and learn lots.”

“Can I call you at night, once or twice, to talk to you about it?” she asked. “There’s no one else I can talk to about sailing, and it’s lonely here at the moment.”

“Sure, I’d love to hear how it’s going, Lori,” I replied.

As I went to open the car door, she kissed me on the cheek, and then brushed the side of her face, as if she was brushing away a tear. I kissed her cheek, too, and got in the car.

“Thanks again, Lori, for everything,” I said, and waved at her as I backed up the driveway.

After dinner, I sat at the piano, practising my scales and pieces for the grade exam, and thinking about the afternoon. I felt that Lori was still in love with me, but for her own reasons, was fighting her feelings. Maybe she was scared that once Cathy returned, and told me about the thing with the guy in Brisbane was over, she and I would get back together, or else she was scared that we would not have enough time for each other.

Either way, I couldn’t change her mind, there was no point trying to force things with her. And I felt that I shouldn’t rush into anything again, I had learned that lesson in the last few weeks. Maybe, if this afternoon was a guide, things were much better with Lori – and Janelle – keeping our relationship at the “just friends” stage.

I had finished about an hour’s practice when the phone rang, it was my mother; just making sure everything was still going fine. After telling her everything was right, she told me how things were going up there, and how they would be coming back with a cooler full of fish that they had caught. All going well, she said they would be home late on Monday the 27th, ready for the start of school on the Wednesday. I made a note to make sure everything was clean and tidy by then.

I had just hung up, when the phone rang again, this time it was my father, calling to see how things were. We talked for a few minutes, until he had to leave the phone free for other people. At least it sounded like he was getting things back in order in Darwin, they had one main telephone trunk circuit out of the city working, and a second system would be working by the end of the week. He hoped that he would be able to get back home for a few days break around the end of the month, if all went well.

It would be good to have him back home, he sounded rather tired on the phone, and I was sure it was pretty stressful up there, with all the pressure to restore the communications facilities, and without all of the normal aspects of civilization.

I had only sat back at the piano for a few minutes when the phone rang again – this time it was Megan.

“Hi Will, I can get Mum to drop me off in the morning, she’s got to go up to Hornsby in the morning,” she said. “But it will be around seven thirty, is that too early?”

“No, that will be fine, I’ll make sure I don’t sleep in,” I replied. “I can even have some breakfast for you if you want.”

“That will be good,” she said. “Although it may be fun for me to wake you up...”

“No, I’ll be up and ready,” I said. “And I will have breakfast ready, if you want.”

We talked a bit more about what we could have for breakfast, how she liked her eggs cooked (scrambled), and whether she wanted toast or cereal (toast). After a while, we talked about some of the songs we would work on, and before we realised it, the time was approaching eleven.

“Oh, I hadn’t realised it was so late,” she said. “I’ve kept you talking too long, I’m sorry, and you didn’t want to sleep in, either.”

“That’s fine, I’ll set my alarm, that way I’ll be up when you get here,” I replied.

“So I won’t see how cute you look, sleeping in your jammies?” she said. “Do you have cute pyjamas, with pictures on them?”

“Well, for your information, I don’t wear any,” I replied. “That’s why I will make sure I am up and dressed by the time you get here.”

“Oh well, I can hope,” she said. “Now, I’m off to bed, so I’ll see you for breakfast. Sleep well.”

“You too, Megan, tomorrow will be a busy day, I think,” I replied.

I headed off to bed, turning out the lights, and tried to clear my mind from the events of the day. I drifted off to sleep, this time with thoughts of Megan, Lori and Janelle in my head.

The alarm went off at six-thirty, and I forced myself to get out of bed, rather than risking falling back asleep, and still being there when Megan arrived. I had a shower, and made my bed, since we would be in here practising later after breakfast. By the time Megan arrived, both the bedroom and I were presentable, and I had started to prepare breakfast.

“Oh, you are up, so I can’t see if you really sleep in the nude,” Megan said as she burst into the kitchen. “Let me put my stuff in your room, then I can help you with breakfast.”

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 31 Presents

I picked Cathy up from her house just after 8:30; as she slid into seat she gave me a big, passionate kiss. “Where to first?” she asked. “I was thinking about Warriewood,” I replied, as we headed up Mona Vale road. “There are lots of places there, provided we don’t trespass on one of the market gardens.” We headed up a side street from McPherson Street, towards the Catholic girl’s school, “Mater Maria”. Being school holidays, the place was deserted, of course. We parked under a tree,...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 27 Back at University

On Saturday, we had all gathered in the studio for a planning session and rehearsal for the new album. Phil had invited several others, DonWalker and Ian Moss (ex-Cold Chisel), I had invited Mike Franz, and Mary Beth had invited Chrissy Amphlette. Don had brought his Yamaha DX7 synthesizer and a Yamaha Clavinova electronic piano, Ian had a Fender amp and two of his guitars and Mike had a Yamaha stage organ. After a bit of shuffling equipment around, we had room for everyone; although we were...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 32 Another Year Ends

There was only another five weeks of classes before the end of the semester; well, before the study break that led into the exams that would be the end of the semester. We all found that time had a habit of shrinking; at the start of each semester, the end of the semester and the exams seemed so distant ... but before we realized it, there was only a matter of weeks left; and a pile of assignments and projects to complete. Having David, Claire and even Garry living next door made the study...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 42 University Ends

I had already planned my work schedule for my thesis; the date that the completed documents had to be submitted to the Faculty’s review committee were fixed, so I worked back from that date. I would have to work out the best way to produce the master copy of the thesis; I could always use Lori’s electric typewriter; but I thought it might be worthwhile playing around with the troff / nroff document processing software we had on the Unix system here. One of the PhD students was writing a...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 6 Getting an AllOver Tan

Thursday dawned clear and sunny, and promised to be another hot summer’s day. I decided to start with some laps of the pool before breakfast, and swam about forty laps – maybe half a kilometre – and went inside to eat. After breakfast, I grabbed the things that I would need for the day; towel, sun cream, some cold drinks, and lunch, and put them in my backpack. Around ten minutes before eight, I got on my bike, and headed towards Cathy’s place. I was full of apprehension; while the thought...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 47 Service NSW

When I woke up, I gathered some documents to show to John about how we would tackle the project. My main aim with today’s meeting was ‘project qualification’, that is, to get more details about John’s requirements, what were the key deliverables and results that he wanted to see, plus some feeling on what was he felt was a reasonable budget and timeframe for the project. I was also wanting to get some idea about how the project would run; what accommodation would be provided, would there be...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 4 Moving on Out

We woke up with the alarm; made love, had a shower together, then ate breakfast before we drove into Surry Hills and the recording studio. When we reached the studio; I parked at the side in the loading area, and went inside looking for George. We found him in the administration office, speaking with a brunette. “Hey, Will, good to see ya, Mate,” he said. “And this is...” he asked, looking at Lori. “You remember my girlfriend, Lori?” I said to him. “Of course, I remember now. Will, here’s...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 25 WTM Consulting

The lead up to the end of the semester was busy – really busy. Not only did we have to get ready for the contract with Alexa’s company, preparing the ‘Banksia Room’ as our computer staging area, tweaking the training notes from the university to suit the contract, but there were examinations to prepare for – not that I had any, the last two ‘Science and Society’ subjects had their assessments based on the assignments and class work. But I still had to vet the papers, make sure the questions...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 36 I Got You Babe

It was late on Saturday morning when I woke up, still feeling down in the dumps. I looked at the clock next to me bed; 9:30 am. I guessed Cathy would already be on the road; they wanted an early start, getting to Goulburn for lunch, and then on to Canberra by early afternoon. She hoped to get everything up in her dorm room before dinner time. I deliberately averted my eyes from the photo of her on my desk; the fact that it was Valentine’s Day didn’t make me feel any better. After a quick...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 22 Off to the Race

It took a while for us to wake up on Christmas morning, by the time we had all cast off our sleep it was close to eight; leaving little time before the others arrived for some yule-tide fucking. Just enough time to have a shower, and start to prepare things for breakfast. Lori had suggested we make pancakes; scrambled eggs, toast, coffee and her ‘home fries’. After we had finished our showers, I started to prepare the potatoes for the home fries; peeling them, dicing them, and chopping up...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 33 Performances Part 2

After our early morning love-making, shower and breakfast, I dropped Cathy off at the bus stop. She wasn’t sure just how late she would be working, and I suggested that she let me know maybe 45 minutes before she was due to finish, and I could drive in and pick her up, to save dealing with the night time buses. At Mike’s, we started talking about the actual sets we would play. “We want to start off with something to really get them going,” Mike said. “Something to kick them in the balls, so...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 10 Party Party Party

Thursday night we were having a Thanksgiving dinner at Mary Beth’s suggestion; instead of a complete turkey, which would have been far too much food even for the seven of us, she had baked two large turkey breasts in the oven. Patrick had helped, making some traditional side dishes, a green bean casserole, and somehow he had found a source of candied yams. As we sat around the dinner table, Mary Beth spoke to us all. “Well, I know Thanksgiving isn’t really an Australian tradition, but it is...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 29 ChCh Changes

With the New Year’s Eve only a few days away, we spent the Saturday afternoon reviewing the set lists for that gig. We had been asked to play for a total of four hours – well, four fifty minute sets, with a ten minute break between them. Then at midnight, we would lead everyone in singing ‘Auld Lang Syne’, then play a final thirty minute set before calling it a night. It was going to be a pretty intense, tiring evening, and right after that we would have to travel to Gosford for the first...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 44 Unexpected Results

We pulled up in the car park for Lilianfels, it was more in Katoomba itself than Leura, close to Echo Point lookout and the Three Sisters. It wasn’t all that far from some of the other scenic lookouts over the Jamison Valley, or some fairly energetic walks, including the ‘Giant Stairway’, some 800 or so steps descending into the valley. There were some more leisurely walks, including one around the cliff top to the ‘scenic railway’, and Katoomba falls, or the other way to the Leura Cascades....

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 23 Welcome to Gresham Terrace

“Mr. Morris, glad to see you’re awake and back with us. I am Doctor David Pickett, and I’m one of the cardiologists here at the Prince of Wales hospital. I guess you’re wondering what it was that happened to you? First, I need to make sure you understand just how the human heart works; it’s basically a pump whose purpose is to circulate blood around the body.” I nodded; that was pretty basic human anatomy. “The blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the rest of the body, and also carries...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 34 Murder and Music

Lori was overjoyed to have us back home; as was Tracy. Even though we tried to be quiet, we woke them as we got into bed. Despite being tired, we made love, and then I slept soundly until nine in the morning. I would have preferred to have gone back to sleep, but I had to get across to the university to enrol. I grabbed a quick breakfast, got my organizer folder from the study, and drove across to the University. I parked behind the Electrical Engineering building, and went up to Professor...

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The Three Signs Book 3 JanelleChapter 9 Engagement and

After a busy few weeks filled with gigs most nights of the week, it was back at University. The fibre optic installation was proceeding; there had been a few minor issues, but the company supplying and installing the cable had worked around them. The University – mainly through the School of Physics – had a long term relationship with Crown Corning; they had worked together on a number of projects, particularly in developing reliable connectors for their single mode fibre. The first set of...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 1 Joining the Australia Dream

“Hey, Will. Paul Ramos here,” the voice on the phone said. “I guess you’re at home at the moment, I called your office at the University, but that cute short girl in your office said you weren’t in over the summer break.” “Paul, comrade. Great to hear from you,” I replied. “No, I’m taking a couple of weeks off; we’ve got a bunch of gigs heading up to Christmas, and into January too. So, to what do I owe the pleasure?” “I’ve got a proposal I’d like to discuss with you; are you going to be...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 54 Reboot

The words that Mary Beth was saying to me somehow didn’t register, everything after the ‘she’s dead, Will ... she was drowned in the floodwaters’ was just noise. I understood what she told me, the troubling dreams I had experienced the night before made sense. There was a loud rushing in my head, and I was wracked with loud sobs. I was aware of Traci standing next to me, her arms around my shoulders, and Mary Beth was on the phone, talking to someone. “Let’s get you down to bed, Will,” Mary...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 10 Sweet Sixteen

I was half awake, and remembering that I was in Dianne’s old bedroom at Cathy’s place, I rolled over to look at the clock next to the bed. 5:30! Far too early to get up; but I needed to have a pee, so I quietly crept out of bed and into the hall, not wanting to disturb anyone. I tiptoed down the hallway, and tried to open the bathroom door quietly. Not being completely familiar with the house yet, I had already started to open the door when I remembered about the squeaky hinges. Oh well, too...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 39 Songs of Injustice

With the wedding out of the way, we got back into the work on the songs for the new album, as well as various gigs around the place. They were starting to take shape, but the real challenge was to ensure that the songs were musically as good as our previous work, and could stand alone as rock songs. We didn’t want the lyrics to be too ‘preachy’ and turn people off. There’s no point in making a protest song, if people don’t like it and refuse to listen to it. After my talk with Alonzo’s...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 16 Babies and Bullets

“It’s on,” Mary Beth said. “Their baby is on the way!” “Oh, I had better get up to the hospital then,” Mrs. White said. “Where should I put my case?” I showed Mrs. White where her bedroom would be; told her that this afternoon we would get the bed made with fresh sheets, and put some towels out for her. Mary Beth was ready to take her up to the hospital; I would clean the bedroom and make her bed with some fresh sheets. At least the room was ready for her when she returned from the...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 33 Summertime Tours

We spent the morning going over the ‘Sister Angela’ scenario with Lori; she wrote down all of the lines that we could recall, our descriptions of what happened overnight, even my rather sacrilegious thoughts on nun-fucking. While Megan and I would be out of town on the tour, Tracy and Lori would flesh out the story, even starting to write it. Around lunchtime some of the others returned home; Mary Beth was pleased to see us. She showed us the final schedule for the first country tour, we...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 7 Four in a Boat

The next day, Sunday, I spent time playing the piano and swimming in the pool. After dinner, I walked down to church; hoping Cathy would be there. I wasn’t disappointed; both she and David were there; David, of course, sitting with Gina. “How was your lunch?” I asked. “Not too bad,” Cathy replied. “But I kept thinking about what we may do tomorrow. Are you sure you are comfortable with being with the other two as well?” “Yes, but can we talk about it afterwards?” I said. “You don’t have to...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 38 Bicentennial Year ndash Part 2

For our visit to Brisbane for our week-long gig at Expo, most of the people were flying, leaving Sydney early on Saturday morning for the hour and a half flight to Brisbane. Lisa and I were taking the train, the XPT left Central at 2:40 pm on Friday, getting into the main station in Brisbane just before 5:00 am on Saturday. We had booked a sleeper cabin for the trip, and the return journey would leave Brisbane just before 6:00 am in the following Sunday, arriving at Central just after 8:00...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 11 Friends and Lovers

I was dreaming, I must have been, lying in my bed, when I felt a person slide under the sheets next to me. A hand slid over my mouth, and I heard a voice whisper in my ear. “Quiet, don’t make a noise,” she said. “I just want to lie next to you for a while, and feel our bodies together.” Lori? It couldn’t be her, but it certainly felt real; her body was pressed against my back, and I could feel her warm breath on my cheek. My buttocks were hard against her lower stomach. “Lori?” I started...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 7 Itrsquos Just a Casual Encounter

Don’t ask me what my name is I know what your game is It’s just a casual encounter It’s just a casual encounter It’s just a casual encounter Christina Amphlett & Mack McEntee Free Falling Late September, 1982 I landed with a hard thump on the ground, knocking all the air out of my lungs. I felt a stabbing pain in my shoulder, and then more pain as my foot slammed against the back wall of the house. I heard Lisa scream, and come running towards me. “Everyone! Help, please! Will’s...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 31 Second Semester

On the last day of July, we took Alonzo, Paul and Patrick to the airport. At least for Patrick and Wendy, it was only a temporary separation, he would be back in two weeks’ time; but for Ros it was a very tearful farewell. The five months before Alonzo was back for his sabbatical job teaching at the University would really drag out for her. Patrick said that one of his first projects would be to get a remote data link set up in our study going back to the office at St. Leonards, ostensibly so...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 2 Lori Finally

“Hi Lori, Will here,” I said when she answered. “Will Morris, where have you been these last four days?” she yelled down the phone line. “I’ve been worried sick about you; every time I called it was just that stupid machine, I even drove around to see if you were at home; your car was in the garage, but there was no answer. What have you been doing?” I told her briefly that on Monday morning, I had been hit by a car as I was crossing the street. I quickly told her that I hadn’t been badly...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 52 Developments in Canberra

Late December 1996 – January 1997 We had the big Christmas Day party at Banksia Lodge, much as we had done in previous years. My father again played ‘Santa Claus’, handing out presents to all the children present. On Boxing Day, we watched the televised start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, there were some impressive boats; a huge Reichel/Pugh maxi, owned by the head of the software company SAP. ‘Morning Glory’ was first out of the harbour, followed by ‘Condor of Currabubula’,...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 13 Lazy Days of Summer

Cathy and I had a late breakfast on Sunday morning; it was still overcast outside, and looked like there could be more rain later in the day. Actually, despite having slept together the whole night – just sleeping, too – our mood was a sombre as the weather. “I miss her already, you know,” Cathy said out of the blue. I didn’t have to ask Cathy who ‘her’ was; I was also feeling sad at not being able to be with Lori for the next few weeks. “Me too,” I said. “How come Janelle gets to go with...

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The Three Signs Book 3 JanelleChapter 7 The New Album Takes Shape

After the New Year’s Eve gig, we had a very lazy New Year’s Day. I think I slept in until close to noon; and did nothing that afternoon until Janelle came around just before dinner time. Or breakfast time for her ... stupid shift hours. We had time for a quickie, before she had to eat, and get ready for work. She promised that she would spend more time with me over the weekend. With the New Year’s gig out of the way, it was time to concentrate on the extensive schedule that Fifa had for us...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 17 Interviews

We pressed the intercom button, a voice answered and we said who we were and that we were there to see Bob Hudson to appear on his show. A minute later a man came to the door, unlocked it, and let us in. “G’day, I’m Marius, Bob’s producer. Come on in, you’re all a bit early, but we can go up to the studio,” he said. He led us up two flights of stairs, down a dimly lit corridor, and into the control room or the studio. The place looked like it was a dump, there were boxes piled in the...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 23 Senior High School

My lips were so close to Cathy’s; I could feel her breath on me. Her eyes looked directly into mine, and I felt a huge yearning. I was about to pull her to me, letting my lips lock on hers, wanting to feel her tongue against mine, when I stopped myself, realising what was happening. “Think, William Morris, use your head, don’t blindly rush in!” I heard a voice in my head. “Don’t you remember what you told yourself, what you told Lori? You know what will happen if you give in to your desires,...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 27 Back at University

Just as everyone had warned me; second year electrical engineering was full on, right from the first day. In each of the subjects, the lecturers didn’t waste time reviewing what we might have studied in the previous year; it was head first into the deep end. I had some doubts about one of the subjects; Solid State Physics. To me, this looked like the sort of subject material that graduate students at Oxford University or MIT would cover; quantum mechanics, atomic particles, and similar...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 28 Towards the Final Exams

The August school holidays were only three weeks away; these were going to be the last break before the HSC exams at the end of October. At lunchtime one day, we were all discussing the plans we had for the two weeks off school. “Well, I’ll be going over all of the previous exam papers,” Cathy said. Some of the others groaned, called her ‘swot’. David wasn’t being anywhere near as studious as his sister; he had arranged to take a train up to the Gold Coast to renew his acquaintance with his...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 10 My Baby Just Cares For Me

We managed to get all of our stuff into the back of the car; but it meant all four of us had to squeeze into the front seat. We worked it out; Megan sat in the centre next to me, then Lori was on the outside, with Jillian on her lap. At least it didn’t take all that long to drive back to Mona Vale, where we dropped Megan and Jillian off with their bags, before heading to Lori’s place. On the drive back to Mona Vale Megan told us about her experiences with the publicity photo shoot yesterday...

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The Three Signs Book 3 JanelleChapter 6 Rockin The Antler

“I have no idea what’s got into my sister,” Mary Beth said as she sat across the table from me. Since this Monday would be the last time for over a month that Mary Beth and I would be able to have our regular lunch date, I had made a point of catching a bus into the city to meet her. Rather than eat at our usual location at the Quay, we had gone to a nice steakhouse in Phillip Street; just a short distance up from her office in Macquarie Street. It was going to be an expensive meal, but I...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 34 Farewells

I pulled up in the driveway of Jenny’s place, and knocked on the front door. Jenny answered; pulled me inside, wrapped her arms around me, and kissed me deeply, even before I had a chance to put my stuff down. When she finally released me, I asked her where I could hang up my clothes for the evening, and she led me down the hallway to her room. Hannah was waiting there; she was just wearing a long white tee shirt, sitting on the double bed with her legs curled up underneath her. “So, how...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 32 Party Games

After our overnight cruise to Castle Lagoon, we discussed where we might take our next cruise. One option was to go up to Lake Macquarie, we could go up for a few days at the start of the mid-semester break; I would have to be back in time to take the midday train to Canberra for my Labor Party policy steering committee meeting. But with some planning, we could sail up on the Friday afternoon, reach the Swansea bridge at high tide, spend the next three days exploring the lake, and return to...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 35 Hello CSE Goodbye Tommy

“Good morning, I am Doctor Will Morris,” I said to the assembled class. “I assume you are all here for subject 6.710, Introduction to Computer Engineering. If anyone is in the wrong place, I suggest now you leave quietly, and get to wherever it is you should be.” I looked around the lecture theatre, there were maybe two hundred and fifty people, none of whom looked like leaving. Most of them had been in the previous lecture, the introductory lecture for Computing 1A. The challenge we had...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 12 Changes in Foursomes

After the great Election Day results, Lisa and I had a fun day sailing; it was a Quartet Bowl race, our favourite. Lisa steered us to another win across the line; we were looking good for a first place in the series. On the way home, Lisa asked me what my thoughts were about Georgina. “You know she wants to sleep with us,” she said. “And both Fiona and I would like to sleep with her, too.” “I guess that’s two votes out of three in favour for it already,” I said. “No, that’s not how it...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 9 Watching the Yacht Race

I woke up early, feeling slightly disoriented until I realised where I was – in Cathy’s old bedroom, at the Parsons’s place, where she had slept until she took over Dianne’s room. It wasn’t yet six o’clock, and I could hear the sounds of the surf through the open window. Elsewhere in the house, all was quiet. I suspected Mr and Mrs Parsons would be sleeping in, and I didn’t know what time David returned, but I was well and truly asleep when he did. I was lying there, wondering whether to get...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 38 Epilogue

Monday morning was dismal, pouring with rain, and I was waiting to hear from Cathy. She should have arrived home last night, and I thought she would have called me then. Maybe she got in late, and was tired, I told myself. By mid-morning, I hadn’t heard anything, and I was going to call her, when I saw the mail arrive. There was a break in the persistent rain, so I walked down to the letter box to see what had arrived. There was a letter for me; in Cathy’s writing, postmarked from Wednesday....

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 36 University Third Year Part 1

I woke up refreshed and excited about the start of the new semester; once I had finished breakfast, and packed my notes and papers for the day’s lectures in my backpack, it was on my bike for the quick ride across to the campus. The first two sessions were the introductory lecture for Numerical Analysis, and a tutorial session; it looked to be pretty interesting (at least for a mathematics subject), the material that we would cover seemed quite interesting. The lecturer, Doctor Opie, appeared...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 9 Parks and Parties

The weeks leading up to the final exams were busy; not just studying for the two exams that I had, but helping Fiona get her internship report finished and ready for submission; last minute coaching for some of my students, and trying to fend off a potential war between some people at Sydney University and other participants in the AARNET project. Independent of the AARNET project, Sydney University had developed a simple store-and-forward network, but they wanted to use the country-level...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 28 Touring

There were several additions to the entourage; Robyn and Sally were coming, along with their two kids; and of course the other two young kids, Bruce and Rachel’s son, Robert, and Andrew and Mandy’s daughter, Debbie would be coming along. Given that all four kids were a bit over a year old, they really couldn’t be left behind, and neither Paul nor Phil wanted to be away from their wives and kids for the three weeks. I could see in the future organizing tours like this one would become more...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 4 Building Relationships

February saw life start to return to normal. Back at Uni, we started to prepare for the upcoming semester. Preliminary enrolment figures for Computing I indicated we would have slightly over three hundred full time students, and another sixty or so in the part time class. During the summer break another large room had been equipped with terminals connected to the Department’s PDP 11/70, which had also been upgraded with additional memory and disk storage. As well, another 11/40 had been...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 4 Photography

As Cathy and I had agreed, we spent the next few days apart. I did my piano grade exam practice for several hours each day, it was boring, but it had to be done. We did speak to each other every night to talk about the things we had done that day. The rain that had cleared on Monday afternoon had returned, so we would not have been able to do much outside anyway. Actually, thinking about it, may have led to more inside activities, including more of what we might discover in Cathy’s copy of...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 15 Partings

After the first month or so of school, memories of the summer holidays had faded quickly. The study workload had increased dramatically, and I was glad I had taken the time to set myself a strict program. With schoolwork, practice for my next piano grade exam, and rehearsals and playing at the Mirage, Friday nights were my only regular free time. After the blow-up with Katey Jackson, I didn’t bother going to the youth group meetings on Sunday nights, which gave me some time to get things...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 48 Winners and Losers

“Hey, Will, it’s Martin here,” the person on the phone said. “Just a reminder, it’s coming up time for your company’s Annual General Meeting, and there’s a few ideas I want to run past you.” He suggested it was time we appointed a ‘Board of Directors’, four or five people who I trusted to provide ‘corporate governance’ and review the major decisions of the company. “I assume at the moment, you’re pretty much running things by yourself, with input from Lisa, Michelle, Mary Beth?” he...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 46 Sabbatical

Tactics on this year’s Coffs race were quite different; the wind was a steady twelve knots from the southeast. Therefore, it was a spinnaker run all the way to Coffs; the perfect test for the new hounds asymmetrical number one. The larger boats made the best of the ideal conditions, we were twentieth across the line, several hours ahead of the next Young 88. We sailed reasonably well in the three short courses, but our overall result for the regatta was a tenth on scratch, fifth on handicap....

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 42 Changes Changes Changes

“Hey, Will, have you got a few minutes to talk? We’ve got a proposal we’d like to talk with you about,” Paul Christie said to me, when we had finished our first sound check for the New Year’s Eve concert in Victoria Park. Paul had established The Party Boys back around 1983 along with Kevin Boritch, and since then it had served as a place for anyone between groups to join and play with. Even some big international names – Joe Walsh, Eric Burden – had played with them. “We hear you guys are...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 11 Summer Activities

I slept quite late in the morning after the engagement party, and even when I woke up, I felt exhausted and disoriented. I asked Lisa if I had drunk too much the night before; maybe the alcohol had interacted with my heart medicine; but she said I had only had a glass of champagne, one nip of bourbon, and stuck to soft drinks other than that. But it wasn’t just that I was feeling tired; I had dreamed some pretty wild and vivid dreams overnight; dreams involving Jillian, and that she had...

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