“Hello, Ray,” Claire said as unenthusiastically as she could.“I heard you were back,” Ray said, totally missing the message in her tone.“Jus... for a while,” she replied.“I also heard your old man walked out on you,” Ray said, demonstrating that he still hadn’t developed a sense of tact.“I’m afraid you heard that part wrong,” Claire said, not willing to let Dave be degraded even if they were no longer together.“Why don’t you let me buy you a drink?” Ray said, continuing his standard spiel with no. I wanted desperately to stay. I am shamed to admit it. But I also suspected that the faithful tub, so implicit to my lady's plans thus far, had not yet served it's full purpose for the night. That meant more water would be needed, and two lady's maids had already been scampering about the house heating water and probably sloshing it everywhere along their route. Such activity was normally reserved for much earlier in an evening, and everybody in the house knew that. Moreover, it should have. If there's one thing I hate, it's being taken for granted.Traci smiled. I was kind of amazed that she still could. "Let it go." Can you?"Traci shrugged as she got out of the car. I got out and followed her into the house. We had it to ourselves again. Mom was in Seattle and Dad was in Olympia. And Tami was over at Robbie's."Any thoughts on dinner?" I asked."Not hungry," Traci said as she headed for the back.She should have been. It had been a long hard workout, and she hadn't eaten since. Let me describe my parents to you guys first.My Father is a service-man, he is 5’6” tall, having an average athletic body. He is in his mid 40’s.My mother is also working; she is 5’5” tall, having an average body, not too fat nor too slim. She is in her late 30’s. And I’m their only son. One day my parents had been for an office party. In that party only couples were allowed. So I had to stay back home. It was very late in the night at around 11.30 pm and still my parents had not come home from.