It was a great spring that year with relatively little rain. I was accepted by the college of my choice for next fall so my schoolwork got a lot easier, a lot less stressful. Eva and I spent a lot of time together.

One warm Saturday afternoon in April as we finished bonking in the sunshine Eva noticed some other people on a neighboring hillside, maybe a quarter of a mile away.
"Don't worry about them. They can barely see us. It's impossible for them to make out what we are doing."

"I think one of them has binoculars."

"What? No way." I looked harder, but all I could see were a distant figures, maybe facing us, maybe not. Was one of them holding binoculars? There was no way to tell for sure.

After awhile, we picked up the blanket we had laid on and walked back toward the car, parked on the side of the road. As we got close, we saw there were several other cars parked nearby with a small group of people hanging around them. We could hear them talking and laughing as we got closer. It looked like a half-dozen kids, our age or so, but I didn't recognize any of them from school. One of them saw us approaching and alerted his buddies and they all stopped joking around and got quiet. It was really weird. They watched us get close, then one of them started to lose it and laughed. Now I could see one of them had a pair of high-powered binoculars hanging around his neck and all of them were suppressing giggles as we walked by.

"Nice show, man."

"Way to go."

"That was awesome, dude. You're my new hero." They all started clapping.

Eva was really embarrassed. I gave them a cold stare before I got in the car, and pretended to be outraged for Eva's sake, but honestly, I couldn't have cared less. If we could entertain others, I didn't mind.

There were several other cuties at high school that flirted with me, in fact a whole gang that used to come watch me at my swim meets, but I really loved Eva-- at least as much as a seventeen-year old can. Somehow I never cheated on her. At least until late that spring just before graduation.