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chair.”
    “Nah. I think I’ll go for a swim first.”
    “Suit yourself.”
    She closed her eye and relaxed into the chair.
    “Is the water cold?” I asked, trying to keep her attention.
    “I didn’t think so.”
    I kicked off my flip-flops and dove head first into the sparkling water. Within milliseconds of being in the water, my entire body felt like needles were shooting into my skin and my toes started to go numb.
    “You said it wasn’t cold! It’s freezing.”
    She opened her eyes and sat up as I tread water and tried to keep my teeth from rattling.
    “It wasn’t cold to me. But then again, I do bathe out of buckets when I’m home. There’s no such thing as warm water unless you’re using it to make tea.”
    “I wish I would’ve known that before I jumped in.”
    “You didn’t ask.”
    “Well, that’s one question I’ve never thought to ask a girl.” I laid my arms and chest onto the warm cement ledge and let my body float on the surface of the water behind me. “Are you going to join me?”
    “Better not.” She reached over and put on a T-shirt before standing and grabbing her towel. “I’m to be leaving you alone, remember? And besides, I think I’ll go take a short nod.”
    “Oh.” I couldn’t tell if my disappointment was obvious.
    “Enjoy your swim.” She slipped on her sandals and started to head inside.
    My immediate dilemma was that if I climbed out and went inside, it would be obvious that I only came out to see her, so I had to pretend that I enjoyed my time in the pool when, in all actuality, I was pretty sure that hypothermia would be setting in within just a few minutes.
    As I swam through the water, a terrible realization hit me. There was nothing spectacular about me. If it weren’t for all the media attention, nobody would even notice me. Proof? Here was a girl just out of the middle of nowhere in Africa, and I couldn’t even get her attention.
    “Cabot,” she said, finally turning to me.
    I instantly felt better. I did get her attention. Maybe I’m not losing my powers after all.
    “I feel I should inform you that your lips are turning blue.” With that, she turned, went inside, and let the door close behind her.

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    4
    I sat in the overstuffed chair with the binoculars shoved into the sockets around my eyes. Hours of sitting had accomplished nothing. I saw two brown birds and a few squirrels. Even a big city boy like me didn’t need an overpriced nature book to identify them.
    It had been two days since I’d seen Kei. Actually, we were creeping into the third.
    Saturday and Sunday passed, and she hadn’t so much as walked onto the back patio. Even the few times that I went inside the main house to make myself some tea, she was nowhere to be found.
    In complete disclosure, part of the reason I was camped out on the chair with the binoculars was because the seat gave me a direct line of vision to the back of the main house. Had she walked past a window, I would’ve seen it, but she didn’t, at least not during the hours that I sat watching.
    I was truly and undeniably turning into a stalker, and while one would assume that I’d be disgusted with myself, the truth was that I saw it as completely justifiable. In my humble opinion, it was rude of her not to check on me at least once since our meeting. Even when a basket of food showed up outside my door the night we met, she managed to do it in the few seconds that I was either asleep or in the bathroom, and I didn’t see or hear her.
    She was like a ninja, a missionary ninja, there but not there, at least not that I could see anyway.
    I put the binoculars back up to my eyes and stared into the kitchen. There was no movement.
    My cell phone rang and caused me to drop the binoculars into my lap. For a second, I thought I got caught.
    “Yeah?” I asked, putting it to my ear, picking up the binoculars again and holding them up to my eyes.
    “Hey, baby.”
    “Hey, Mom.”
    “How are