The easy swoosh of the curtains as they rose and fell with the advancing evening breeze was doing a very good job of easing Gerry’s mood back to normal. When the initial panic had started to fade, anger had rushed in to take its place. It had taken three cabs to get them all back to the apartment house, but in the time it took for those cabs to arrive and take them home, the atmosphere had gone from horrified reflection to Party Central. But while everyone else had been more than happy to celebrate their close call with booze and games in and around the pool, Gerry had slunk off to his bedroom, stripped off his sweaty clothes, lain down on the bed, and glared holes into the walls.
Internal voices scolded him for being irresponsible. They told him that he knew better, that he hadn’t been r
