How is everyone’s summer treating them? I hope well. The air is heating up, but hasn’t been too bad yet. Things have started out busy and are just getting crazier and I wasn’t able to post a sneak peek last week, but here is the fourth one. Please enjoy and let me know what you think.

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Nathan nodded, still coughing, trying to get enough air to calm things down to raspy breathing. “Man…” he said, hoarse from all that coughing.  “I have to pee.”

“Maybe we will get bathroom breaks for good behavior,” I chuckled at my own joke.  “You might as well do it in your pants,” I added.  “I think we already have.”

“Is that what that smell is?” he said, wrinkling his nose.  “OK, but look the other way.”

I turned my head just before he gave a sigh of relief.

“Are you done yet?” I asked, hearing a dripping noise from his direction.

“Yeah, I’m good now,” he whispered.

“Geez…” I said, looking at Nathan who was now lying in a small pool of pee. “How much water have you had in the last few days?”