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Deep down, however, we both knew that none of them would ever be able to compete with Maria Cassidy. During that hot summer of mothers in bikinis, suntan lotion and never- ending legs she kept one step ahead.
cool off and saw Mr. Cassidy come home from
a day selling cars. We didn’t really cool off, though, we never did. But, after one of our ses- sions with Maria Cassidy, we needed some time out of doors.
When she lay on her stomach, reached her arms around and untied the straps of her bi- kini top – the yellow one – Heff had to leave
his bedroom window and go into the bath- room. I stayed at the window, staring down at her, and concentrated on her shoulders. They looked delicate and strong. The ends of her hair touched them. I wanted to touch them too. I said as much to Heff when he emerged, red- faced, from the bathroom. For a few minutes he stared intensely down at her. Unusually for him he didn’t say a word, and I thought to myself, this is it, out the window he goes. But he didn’t jump. Instead, he became hot and bothered once again, and made another trip to the bath- room.
“Is Longshaw still your number two?” I asked him.
“To think that slimy toad gets to crawl all over her,” Heff said when we sat out on the curb to
We stopped talking then. Kevin Ford’s Honda growled past us, skidded and spun around, narrowly avoiding Mrs. Redihan’s dog. Mrs. Re- dihan came out of her house and shook a fist at Kevin Ford’s Honda. Behind his steering wheel Kevin rolled his eyes. Heff and I stood up, and headed back to Heff’s bedroom until the sun went down.
“He was lying on the road, not moving, blood was seeping out from the
underside of his head.”
“Yeah. Her face isn’t great, but she has a good body.”
“Brady is my number two.”
“She has a good personality. Her face is pleas- ant, but I’m not sure about the rest. Have a look at Longshaw. She’s in a bikini this week – well, half of her is.”
After it got dark Heff and I played pool and a card game Heff had invented. From time to time, he put me on stopwatch duty while he
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