Played my semi final game really well and moved on to the final where I got a bit of a trouncing. Just couldn't,t find that groove. Mende up in 4 th and her cousin got to the fials and lost. He did good.
Played canasta again last night.

Chapter 2

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he years rolled by, sometimes the visits to the bay were only for a few weeks and the two friends made the most of the time they had together.

 There were other instances of ‘recall’ and each time that it happened, they would discuss it in detail.  A couple of times over the years, Cindy experienced something similar but not as often and not with the clarity of Brian’s moments except once.

 The year after the pumpkin patch vision, they were out roaming about and one day decided to climb up the small mountain that rose up above where an old school had once stood.  Once up on the slope of the mountain they found a moss covered slope, arbutus and fir trees were scattered about. From the open spots they could see all the islands out in the strait below them.  They clambered to the very top, rested on their backs on the soft moss and watched cloud formations in the sky.  Suddenly Brian got up and walked over to the edge of the mountain to where it dropped away almost perpendicularly.  He looked down then turned to look at Cindy and with a far off look in his eyes said, “Lets go down this way, we’ll jump into the top of that tree and slide down, then when we get to a ledge, jump into another tree, we can get all the way to the bottom that way.”

 She in turn looked over the edge, “No it’s too dangerous, lets go back.”

 Her words were hardly out when he jumped and landed in the treetop just a few feet away.  She started to scream then looking down and across into his face she saw another face, similar but another boy’s face laughing back at her, the scream died before it started.

He was laughing and as he looked up at her, the sun at her back her profile was not that of a girl but a young boy, a boy for a fleeting moment he knew.

 Brian slid a few feet down the tree and without another word Cindy jumped and landed where he had been only a moment before.  Together laughing and shouting they slid all the way down to a ledge, then into another tree, to another ledge and so on until they reached a rocky slope that they followed down to the road.

 On the road they both looked back up to where they had first jumped, then slowly they turned to face each other, two pairs of eyes searched each other.  

 She said, “I saw, I saw someone ….”

 He nodded, “I know, I did too.”

 They said no more but as they walked down the road and down the hill, she reached out and clasped his hand. He didn’t pull away.