A Break

Terran

“Then do it!” he exclaimed. “Let’s be done with this back and forth!”

I let myself imagine a life with Hailey as my wife. I knew the sex would be great. Would she want children? Did I want children? Could I be with a woman that was interested in me because I was wealthy? I didn’t think I could be. I had rejected women who had gone after me solely for the money. I hated that materialistic bullshit.

“I know she’d say yes.”

“Good, then what’s the holdup?”

I shook my head, not wanting to talk about Hailey anymore. It was something I was going to have to figure out on my own.

“I want to get out of this wetsuit,” I said, quickly changing the subject.

Zach laughed. “Fine, but you’re not off the hook. I want a beer and a burger.”

“I’ve got a change of clothes in the car. Let me change before I start to chafe.”

He chuckled again. “Don’t want that to happen.”

We went back to our cars, each of us grabbing a change of clothes, and we used the bathrooms to change into shorts. I had cut out