I was flipping through my orange journal and ran across a happy memory. It was written the afternoon after Gerette and I went skinny dipping.

August 6th, 2000 1:00pm The ritual went extremely well. Clover didn't go, but that was okay. We were able to cleanse Gerette's tainted items and break the hex. After the ritual, Gerette and I went skinny dipping. It was fun. I've never done that before. I made Gerette turn around while I was out of the water so she wouldn't see me. Gerette left the water first, after which I swam to the middle of the pond. It was so nice sitting in the middle of the quiet water with a slight mist obscuring the shore, staring up at the pinhole stars while the occasional meteor would streak by. It was just me and the water and the sky. No one else, nothing else. Just me alone in the universe.

I want to go skinny dipping there again. Unfortunately, Lake won't drive to the pond, me and Gerette aren't getting along anymore, and I don't know anyone else who both has a car and is interested.