15 EDITH For three days I stayed next to Sean, sitting in the garden with one of my books, instead of going sunbathing on the beach with Grace or playing beach volleyball with the others. I would have done anything to avoid my friend who kept begging me to go to her cousin's or Jake who spent his time drinking and smoking weed, while Anya clung to him like an octopus and didn't miss a chance to kiss him or rub herself all over him. I was disgusted. If Jake was like Dionysus, god of pleasure and drunkenness, Sean was more like Apollo, god of purity and intellect. Being around him meant coming into contact with so much new information and discovering worlds unknown to me such as the metaverse and computer programming. I admired Sean's thirst for knowledge and was co

