I had to combine them starting now... those chapters are being super short.

Six

"Thanks." Jade passed the valet a tip, shaking her head when he went to remove her luggage and Tori's from the back. "No, that stays with us." She shut the hatch and walked around to the driver's side door.

"Aren't we staying here?" Tori laid one hand on the frame of the car door, giving Jade an inquisitive look. "I thought we had reservations." She glanced up at the tall, respectable looking hotel they were parked in front of, having let the techs out.

"No." Jade got in and closed the door, waiting for Tori to do likewise. "I have other plans."

"Ah. Okay." Tori got in and leaned her elbow on the seat arm, watching her partner's profile as Jade pulled out of the Marriott's driveway, and headed back out onto the mostly empty roads. "I see." She evaluated the half hidden smirk, and decided whatever Jade's plan was, she'd appreciate it. "Telegenics. Big surprise, huh?"

Jade snorted. "You'd have thought the detail analysis Sinjin did would have tossed THAT little bit of intelligence up to the top. Did we miss it?" She wondered. "No way. He'd have flagged it, at the least."

"I'm sure." Tori reached idly over and pushed a bit of Jade's hair back behind one well shaped ear. "I'd say they targeted us, but you know, they didn't. There've been other companies hit by them too."

"Exactly." Jade nibbled her lower lip a she thought. "Didn't think Shari had any interest in the IT field."

One of Tori's brown eyebrows lifted. "I'd say she had a very significant interest in a specific part of the IT field." She remarked dryly. "Maybe she saw an opportunity to poach two eggs in one cup."

Jade looked at her. "You calling me an egghead?"

They both laughed, relieving the tension. "Ah." Jade shrugged. "So it'll make it interesting. Helps, sort of. At least I know some of their motives and more than one of their tactics." She wrapped her hands around the steering wheel and flexed her fingers. "A tisket a tasket…"

"Pair of bitches in a basket." Tori warbled back at her, joining Jade in another round of pretty darn close to giddy laughter. "Jesus, it's late." She finally sighed. "I'm losing it. We're losing it." Her fingers curled around Jade's bicep, and she leaned her head against her shoulder. "So, where are we going?"

"Same place we went last time." Jade said. "For a lot of reasons." She went on, evidently realizing Tori was staring at her. "First off, if I want to ravish you on the balcony, I really don't to worry about someone whose paycheck I sign watching from the next one." She cleared her throat. "Second.."

"Ahahahaha." Tori reached over and covered her mouth. "Whoa. One's enough for me."

Jade smiled, feeling the pressure as Tori's fingers gently tweaked her skin. After a moment, she was released. "I wanted to wake up with you wrapped around me, and not have you almost pass out from the horror of it all."

"Ahhh." Tori chuckled softly under her breath. "Oh, do I remember that." She half covered her face with one hand. "If I could have crawled through the floor of that room, I would have." She remininced wryly. "You have no idea how I almost levitated off the bed when I woke up – only thing that kept me from freaking out was knowing I'd wake *you* up if I did."

Jade turned onto the access road that led to their destination. "I think I knew, even in my sleep." She said. "I was dreaming about snuggling."

Tori peered at her from the corner of her eye. "Did you really?"

Her partner nodded. "It felt great. Then I woke up, and it was gone. I was pissed."

"I remember." A slow smile crossed Tori's face. "You said it was a hangover." She paused. "Wait a minute – how did you know? I never did ask you that.. was it just a lucky guess?"

Jade reached out and riffled her fingers through Tori's brown hair. "You left evidence." She replied. "But yeah, it was half a guess. You were acting like you'd gotten caught in the cookie jar."

"Hmph." The brunette managed a dignified look, which swiftly dissolved into a sheepish grin. "I felt really, really stupid."

Jade pouted.

"No, not…" Tori drew her knee up and wrapped her arms around it as she watched the quiet streetlights whisk by. "I felt like I was out of control.. like I had my heart pinned on my jacket lapel or something."

"So… " Her partner drawled. "My hoodwinking you into sleeping in my bed didn't clue you in that I was in any better shape?"

Tori thought about that for a while as they drove through the vast Disney property, towards the large, white, spread out Grand Floridian hotel. How had she ended up in Jade's bed, anyway? They'd been watching the news, and she'd gotten sleepy… she remembered the sweet taste of hot chocolate on her lips… and then the cup had been taken from her. "I could have gotten up and gone to my own room."

"Uh huh."

"But I didn't want to." The memory surged sweetly over her. "I didn't want to be alone."

"Me, either." Jade skillfully navigated the big car into the driveway of the hotel, pulling up at the stately Victorian styled portico and putting the car in park. A valet trotted alertly out to meet them. "So I wanted to come back here, and revel in the fact that what I felt that morning.." She opened the door and gave the valet a slight smile, then ducked her head back inside the car. "Was dead on real."

Tori felt, and suspected she looked, slightly wide eyed at Jade's sudden and somewhat unexpected headlong dive into rampant romanticism. "Okay, honey." She agreed. "I'm all for it!'

Jade's face split into a grin, and her eyes twinkled before she disappeared again and went to open the trunk for the valet. Tori sat for a moment, and then she simply shook her head, opening the door and hopping out.

The hotel hadn't changed. Tori drew in a breath of warm air scented with night jasmine as she joined Jade in walking towards the door. This late, it was very quiet, a soft hint of music from the speaTors and the clatter of cleaning crews was all the accompanied them to the door.

A blast of chilled air met them as they entered, and they strolled across the beautiful lobby that almost succeeded in bringing them right into another world. Tori allowed herself to be entranced, and she spent a few minutes simply looking around at the soaring ceilings as Jade worked out the details of their room.

"Let's go." Jade put a hand on her shoulder, and smiled.

Tori took her hand and held it as they walked from the front desk, and strolled across a silver ribbon of their own memories.

"Mm. Pretty." Tori gazed outside, watching the small, blinking lights as a boat crossed the lake towards the pier in front of the hotel.

Or maybe it was the back of the hotel. It was hard to tell, though the views on this side had it all over the ones on the other side. Tori leaned against the chilled glass, her breath fogging it slightly as she exhaled. Below them, she could see a few, lone figures walking down the paths, and on the end of the pier two figures sat together, apparently simply enjoying the view as she was.

She watched them lean together, against each other, and it made her smile because she knew just exactly how good that felt.

Her shoulders ached, and she felt tired, from the long day and their active evening, but she wasn't sleepy. Behind her, she could hear Jade rattling around in the bathroom and she spent a moment contrasting the reality of her now, with the memories of the past.

It was almost too disparate to compare. Then, Jade's every motion, every sound had flicked against her unsure awareness, making her heart jump.

Now, they made other parts of her jump, and her heart merely beat calmly, waiting for it's other half to finish fussing and come to join her. Tori could already feel the warmth of Jade's touch and she divided her attention – half to the glistening castle seen in the distance past the glass, and half in the reflection of the room behind her, waiting.

Jade finished arranging their toiletries and re-entered the room, watching Tori press her nose against the glass sliding door. ""I think I remember being sucTored into those pretty lights last time I was here." She flexed her bare toes against the carpet. "By that same look, too."

Tori had turned and was grinning at her. She was draped in her old, worn Pooh t-shirt, her hair damp from the shower they'd just shared. "You didn't take much sucToring." She said. "It was just a tiny appeal to your pride, and presto." She snapped her fingers. "Instant monorail ride."

"Oh yeah?"

"Oh yeah." The brunette cheerfully nodded. "Although I did keep trying to convince myself I was doing it to help you relax, and it was for your own good."

"Mm." Jade stretched her body out, popping her shoulders into place. "It was."

"For your own good?"

"Oh yeah." Jade joined her at the glass and slid an arm around her as Tori turned and they gazed out over the dark water, to the brightly lit theme parks beyond. "I'm damn ticked."

"At me?"

"At those stupid pieces of horse manure." Jade's eyes narrowed. "They're putting a damper on my fun plans, and I don't like it."

Tori reached over and gave her a rub on the belly. "We can still have fun. We got our stuff done tonight, didn't we?" She asked. "Any reason why we need to be there tomorrow for them to put the froo froo up?"

Jade considered. Then she grunted. "No." She answered. "We're not supposed to be here for another day and a half."

"Exactly." Tori agreed. "So you, me, and a pair of Florida resident park hopper passes are going to go have a wild and crazy time tomorrow."

"Hm. Do we have those?"

"Yeees." Tori smirked. "Since I knew you weren't going to let me put this place on *my* card." She batted her fair lashes at her partner. "So get your bathing suit ready, Gigi."

For an answer, Jade moved a bit of Tori's hair out of the way and gently kissed her neck. "Want some hot chocolate?" She uttered into the smaller woman's ear.

"No." Tori's eyes closed. "I want you." She let her hand slowly glide up Jade's thigh. "I wanted you the last time I was here, but I couldn't have you."

Jade laughed softly into her ear. "Victoria, you had me from day one." She slipped her arms around Tori, and guided her towards the bed, turning in lazy circles as they smiled into each other's eyes.

"We could really recreate this, and turn the news on." Tori suggested, between light kisses across Jade's collarbone.

"Try it, and I'll bite your fingers off." Her partner replied.

"Oo."

They both woke at the same time. Tori heard Jade take a sudden, irregular breath, just as she opened her eyes to see the early morning sun pouring through the window. Once again, she was sleeping half on her side, half on her stomach, and once again, she was snuggled tightly up against Jade's body.

Oh, but what a difference. Tori smiled. This time she had no urgent desire to levitate herself off the bed in pure shock, and her heart didn't attempt to emerge from her ears with its hammering. This time her welcome was sure, and the shoulder her cheek was resting on was as familiar to her as her own pillow.

Well, it often was her own pillow. Tori slid one thigh up over Jade's and gave her a squeeze, humming low in her throat as sleep slowly cleared from her eyes. "Morning, sweetheart."

"Eeurrgh." Jade made a purring noise in return. "Morning to you too." She rubbed Tori's back with her fingertips. "And what a pretty one it is." She turned her head and watched the sunlight creep across the floor, still tinted coral instead of the bright white yet to come.

It would be yet another in an almost endless series of summer days, hot and sticky, the morning fair with the ever present possibility of thunderstorms in the afternoon as the earth struggled to throw off the sun's heat.

Water parks in the morning, Jade decided. Then maybe a visit to Epcot in the afternoon, since the technology park offered up lots of indoor attractions to escape the heat, and possibly the rain as well. "You up for dinner at the Living Seas?" She inquired. "I love that tank."

The honey brown eyes brightened. "Oo.. yeah." A nod. "Good idea."

Jade smiled contentedly. "I think that sounds like a plan." She said, as she arched her back to stretch it out, lifting Tori a little with her before she relaxed again under the covers. "Damn, I'm glad we got all that crap squared away last night. If I'd had walked in there today with nothing done, heads woulda rolled."

Tori traced an idle pattern on Jade's ribcage. "So the only reason you didn't was because there were no heads to roll?"

"Hm." Her partner grunted after a moment's silence. "You know something? I really don't know." She lifted one arm and settled her hand behind her head. After another short, pensive silence, she shrugged. "Ah.. probably faster if I did it myself anyway."

Tori nodded slightly. "I had the neatest dream last night." She related, changing the subject. "You and I were getting married."

Jade's eyebrows twitched. "Um.."

"Yeah, I know we are married, but not… I mean, it was this whole ceremony with rice, and flowers.." Tori felt Jade start to laugh. "You and me in pretty gowns.."

"Don't tell me white ones."

"Sure." Tori cheerfully agreed. "You looked gorgeous… you had this lace sheer neckline thing on and…"

"Tori." Jade tapped her on the shoulder. "You need some coffee or something?"

"No, why?"

"Just wondered."

"Anyway. We were in this beautiful cathedral, with stained glass windows, and everyone was throwing bags of rice at us..."

Jade half sat up, bringing Tori up with her and displaying the considerable strength of her abdominal muscles. "What?"

Tori tumbled and rolled into Jade's lap, ending up peering up at her as she lay on her back across her partner's legs. "What?"

"Bags of rice? What was this, a Cuban wedding? Were there bags of beans too?" Jade queried, tossing her head back to clear the disordered hair from her eyes. "Five pound bags? Ten? Fifty?"

Tori folded her hands over her bare stomach. "Sweetheart." She twiddled her thumbs. "Yankees don't like to whip out their dustpans during a wedding. We wrap a *pinch* of rice into a cloth bag and toss that at newlyweds." She informed her lover. "It's supposed to be good luck."

Jade put a fingertip against her nose. "It's supposed to be for fertility, so you'll have lots of babies." She corrected her in a wry tone. "Leave it to Yankees to conveniently forget *that*."

"Mm… we didn't forget it." Softly glinting brown eyes peered up at Jade. "It was just so nice. All our friends were there, and Chino had a hat on… your dad was in a tux."

Her partner smiled in reflex. "You have cute dreams."

"I had one the first time we stayed here too." Tori admitted. "Remember you were saying you did? Before we woke up? So did I." She sat up and pulled her legs up crossed under her, pushing her hair back with one hand.

"It didn't have rice in it, did it?" Jade leaned on one elbow, facing her. The sheets draped loosely over her body, exposing roughly half of her torso and all of the length of one long leg.

"No." Tori leaned her elbows on her knees. "I didn't remember it until way after we left Orlando. It was you and I up in a tree."

"A tree." Jade sniffed reflectively. "I like trees." She allowed. "What kind of tree?"

A shrug. "I have no idea. But we were up in it, looking at the sky." Tori glanced at the sheets, drawing her finger over the soft surface. "I remember just being happy, and that was such a strange feeling for me back then."

Jade laid her hand on Tori's knee. "And now?"

"And now?" Tori laughed, a light, joyous sound. "Oh, my god, Jade. Now I have that dream when I'm awake." She peeked up into her partner's eyes. "Do I sound like a babbling idiot this morning or what?"

The blue orbs twinkled. "Wanna have breakfast here, or go find some hapless characters to harass?" Jade rubbed the skin under her hand gently.

"Here." Tori rolled over onto her side and stretched out on the bed. "Banana stuffed French toast?" She suggested. "Then we can grab our swimsuits and go look for trouble." With a quick twitch, she yanked the covers off Jade and scrambled back off the bed with them as her partner rose to the challenge and chased her.

She almost got away, when her feet got tangled up in the sheets and she hopped madly to free them, bouncing all over the room and nearly causing Jade to cough up an eyeball laughing. At the last hop, the other woman got an arm around her and they both fell, hitting the carpet and thrashing around with the sheet winding itself around them.

"Ee!" Tori squirmed, as long, ticklish fingers attacked her bare ribs. "You grunge!"

"Yeah? Takes one to know one!" Jade grappled with her, the fabric tangling around them both and winding them tighter together. "Auarrgguhhh!"

"Ooooo…gotcha!" Tori wrapped her arm around Jade's calf and attacked the inside of her knee, feeling the powerful limb jerk in response to her tickling. "Ahahahahahah!"

Buzz.

Jade's head popped out from under it's wrapping of cotton as she glared so intently at her cell phone the leather cover visible shriveled.

Buzzz.

One long arm snaked out and snatched the instrument, but then paused as Jade took a moment to catch her breath before she answered the phone. "What?" She snarled into it.

"Oo." Tori wriggled up between Jade's legs and poked her head out into the open to listen. "

"Well, good morning to you too, Jade. Always such a pleasure to talk to you." Elle's voice held equal parts sarcasm and amusement. "Were you up?"

Jade's pale blue eyes slitted. "Yes." She said. "You get assigned wake up call duty this week? I thought Alastair was gonna invest in software to do that."

The VP of marketing chuckled. "Oh, there's just parts of you that never change, aren't there? It's a relief really… like death, taxes.. you know."

"Ahem."

"Is Tori there?" Elle asked, giving up on her torment.

Jade gave her cell phone another evil look. "It's quarter to seven in the morning, I'm in my hotel room, and I'm not dressed. What do you think?"

A pause. "Well wouldja put her on the phone, please? She's at least civil before coffee."

Tori fell forward against Jade's chest, laughing helplessly, covering her mouth to keep Elle from hearing.

"She's occupied at the moment." Jade gazed down at the brunette draped over her. "What do you want?"

Elle sighed audibly. "Okay, okay – there are a lot of really ticked off people here, Jade." She said. "I'm about to head into a meeting with ten of our fellow exhibitors."

"And?" Jade nuzzled Tori's hair, nibbling it's softness. "If the hall's screwed up, what do you want from me? It's not my fault." She leaned back against the bed, sliding her free hand around Tori's now still form. "And it sure as hell isn't Tori's fault."

"No.. Jesus, all right! I'm coming!" Elle sounded more than exasperated. "Listen, Jade.. bottom line, these guys want to know who you paid off to get our booth up. Nothing fancy. They're frustrated, and out of time, and they just want to get it all done so… who gets the check?"

Jade grinned at her cell phone. "Me."

"What?"

The tall CIO smirked. "I didn't pay anyone off, Elle I went… sorry… we went in there last night and just made it happen."

"You?"

"Me." Jade confirmed. "Tell them I take credit cards. What do you think, three, four thousand a minute? What's my time worth?" She chuckled. "I tell you what, it's gonna take them the whole goddamn day to pull the circuits, because the nitwits who installed them didn't label the damn things; I had to check them one by one and let me tell you, I was raising the roof in that telco room cursing."

"Oh, my god." Elle muffled a laugh. "Everyone thinks you bribed the management company."

"Hah." Jade looked down into Tori's expressive eyes. "We don't need to bribe anyone to execute the technology we're responsible for implementing."

"Can I quote you?" Elle sounded gleeful. "Please?"

"Sure." Jade lowered her head and brushed Tori's lips with her own. "Just don't raffle me off. I'm busy."

"Rats. I could have recouped the outlay for the damn convention." The VP of marketing mock sighed. "When are you coming over?"

"We're not." Tori neatly captured the phone. "Hi, Elle." She cleared her throat. "We got you guys all set up, so its your turn now. Jade and I will be reachable on our cells, but we're spending the day elsewhere."

"Uh." Elle was caught off guard, and it showed. "Well, all right, Tori. Sure." She responded. "We'll.. ah.. call you if we need you."

"Thanks. Bye!" Tori closed the cell and tossed it on the bed. "C'mon nerdmeister. I hear a banana calling my name." She got a last tickle in, laughing as Jade rocked backwards with her in her arms. "Score one for the geek squad."

The sun poured into the room, painting it silver, splashing across the carpet and catching on tan skin and tangled dark and light hair.

Jade broke off for air, rubbing Tori's nose gently with her own. "Score two."

Yeah.

Tori pushed her phone in the pocket of her shorts, and slid her sunglasses by one ear next to them. She studied the result in the mirror and decided that, plus the tucked in tropical fish t-shirt was acceptable.

She had her bathing suit on underneath, a relatively sedate aqua green one piece, with a racing neckline that she'd just gotten the week before. Shopping for bathing suits had gotten a lot easier since she'd started purchasing them for function, rather than the form her family had always insisted on, that was definitely for sure.

She remembered the first time she 'd gone shopping for the beach with her mother, after she'd gotten old enough to really be conscious of her body, and her figure. What a horror show that had been. She'd wanted a two piece like all her friends, and she'd been treated to a hour of critique on why she couldn't possibly wear one because of what the press would say about her not quite shed layer of baby fat.

Jesus. Tori met her own eyes in the mirror and winked at herself wryly. So even now, she stayed away from bikinis for the most part even though she knew she could pull one off in rather grand style these days.

Besides, Jade said she looked sexier in the sleek, one piece solid color functional ones she tended to wear, so who needed a bikini anyway? Jade looked like a smoke show in hers, and sometimes she joined her. The few she owned having been purchased by her partner. But because they were constantly under water, the one pieces were just the best kind.

Ah well.

"Right." She gave herself a nod, then looked up as Jade appeared behind her in the mirror, already decked out in her shades, see through tank over her royal blue bikini and shorts. Tori looked over at the red set she had brought. They wouldn't be diving today. And the water park was the place for a two piece… "Would you mind?" Tori handed Jade the sunscreen.

"Never." Jade sprayed some of the tanning lotion on her hands and started working it into the exposed portion of Tori's skin. "Want to pull your hair back?"

Tori moved her dark locks out of the way, so Jade could get the oil all the way up the back of her neck. "You think it'll stick?"

"For a while." Jade glanced at the bottle. "Theoretically waterproof, but we'll take it with us. I don't want to get toasted, and I know you don't either."

"Nuh uh." Tori simply stood in place, enjoying the strong hands giving her a massage in the process of protecting her hide. "Jade, can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"Aren't you at all curious as to what those two are up to?"

"No."

Tori looked up into the mirror, watching her partner's face as she worked. Jade's expression was relaxed and calm, and when the blue eyes lifted and met hers, there was no evasiveness in them. "Really?"

"Nah." Jade shook her head. Then she half shrugged one shoulder. "I mean, I guess I don't want to see them run us out of town, and I guess we're going to have to sit down and really analyze what they're doing… what their plan is… if they've really got something different that we can't compete with, that sort of thing."

"But you don't care that it's them?"

"No."

"Hm."

"Do you?" Jade studied her for a moment. Tori's face twitched a little, her jaw muscles bunching as she considered. "You think it's personal?"

Tori took the oil and capped it, She gestured for Jade to turn and precede her from the bathroom, and didn't speak until she'd tucked the bottle into the small pack she'd planned on carrying and fastened it around her. "I think it might be, yeah." She admitted, as they walked to the door and exited into the hallway. "But maybe that's just my green eyes talking."

Jade touched the button for the elevator, maintaining a thoughtful silence.

They walked through the lobby, and out to the bus stop, Tori removing her sunglasses as they walked outside and settling them firmly onto her nose. They took a seat together to wait for the correct bus, wincing a little as their bodies had to adapt from the air conditioned comfort of the hotel to the sauna like heat outside.

"I think I just realized somewhere along the way the past year I grew up." Jade said, out of the blue. "Maybe they do have personal motives, but I don't give a crap. I don't have time in my life for their dramas."

Tori flicked an adventurous love bug away from her bare knee. She could already feel sweat gathering under her light clothing, and she was looking forward to the cool kiss of the water at their current destination. She'd realized herself the past year that though she chose to live in the subtropics, she didn't much like breathing swamp air most of the time and saved her excursions in the summer for the early morning and late evening hours. "That's an interesting point of view."

Jade shrugged. "Would you rather go to the convention center and mess with them?" She asked bluntly. "You having second thoughts about our being out today?"

"No." Tori shook her head. "That's not it at all, Jade."

"Then what's the problem?"

Did she have a problem? Tori frowned, feeling the edges of her own temper prickle. "Did I say I had a problem?" She asked, half turning to face her partner.

Jade merely raised her eyebrows, folding her arms across her chest in mute eloquence.

Tori exhaled, looking up as the bus approached with their destination on it. "I don't have a problem. I just want to make sure my job is covered." She got up and started for the door. "We get paid a lot of money to do what we do. I just don't want to think I'm blowing that responsibility off."

Jade climbed up after her, and they took seats near the middle of the bus. The taller woman stretched her legs out and studied the neatly folded half socks peeking over the edge of her sneakers, "Hmph."

Several other guests filed in behind them including a family with three or four children, all wide eyed and excited as their parents corralled them in the back. Jade watched them for a few minutes, then she glanced at Tori's profile.

Tori looked back at her at the same time. "If it is personal, and they are gunning for us, it's going to sting them like hell if we don't show up."

Jade grinned like a pirate.

"It's like we don't consider them a worthwhile threat." Tori went on, giving her companion a poke in the shoulder. "You're too freaking smart for your own good, JaeJae."

"You're not so bad yourself." Jade leaned back. "If it makes you feel any better, yeah, my gut instincts were to go over there and just run roughshod over everyone, micromanaging every detail like a concierge on steroids." She admitted. "But strategically, since we're already a jump ahead of them, it makes sense to steer clear and let them all scramble."

"Mm."

Jade gazed at the roof of the bus. "And it's a great rationalization for me to just do what I want to do anyway." She cleared her throat. "Which is spend the day having fun with you."

"Ah." Tori surrendered with a wry chuckle. "Is this a case of the action plan having two parallel goals?" She asked. "Or are we just coming up with a good excuse for ourselves?" After reviewing her words, and the stillness of Jade's face, she held a hand up. "Okay."

The bus trundled over a myriad of bumps in the road, and eventually pulled into the water park. The door opened, and through the heat Tori caught a whiff of sun warmed concrete and chlorine. She followed Jade down the steps and stayed behind her a step as they walked towards the entrance.

Well, screw it. With a shake of her head, Tori increased the length of her strides and caught up to her partner, deliberately bumping her with her shoulder.

Jade looked at her, then bumped her back. "Done wrestling?"

"Mm." Tori patted her cell phone. "If they need us, we're here." She concluded. "Besides, what the heck could happen at a trade show?"

They showed their passes at the gate and were admitted, the sounds of splashing and laughter already beginning to surround them much as the scent of the water did. They secured a locTor and Tori stripped off her shirt and shorts, stuffing them and the rest of her gear into the small space. Save the phone which she snapped into a waterproof housing before looping the lanyard on the case around her neck. Then she picked up her towel, and joined her now swim suited companion as they headed out into the sun.