Some of him was rubbing off on her; there was nodoubt of that. But? he was the best at it. He could play the mind games withthe best of them. And he a...ways won. She drifted back into the here and nowand gave a shiver at the thoughts running through her head, resigning themback to the corners so that she could try to think straight. Gabrielle looked into the mirror and saw a reflection of her back. That seemeda little strange, considering that she couldn't remember being able to seeher back from. “Luscious?” I threw out another.“Ooh yea.” Blossom said in a sultry voice as she wiggled her eyebrows.“Mouth-watering?” Lynn added.“Finger-licking good?” I said with a heavy southern accent.“Alright already!” Erin raised her arms in surrender.“Erin, YOU need to talk to us. We are going to be shooting in the dark hoping to hit the target, but you know what is wrong. You know. When we started this relationship, it was you who was not sure. When Lynn had the incident, you were the one who knew she. It isn’t wrong. But it can’t happen yet.”“Yet?” I looked at Zuri again, feeling an echo of that warm swelling feeling, even as I wanted to comfort her, hold her.“Soon. When you’re a little older. But not now.”Soon. The feeling of pressure eased a little as my curiosity grew.“When?” Zuri asked, surprising me.“In a few years. When you are 14. For now ... you keep that to yourselves. You can touch at any time you want, but no touching of each other. Not in that way. Promise me.”We both nodded.“I. This hallway had doorways into 4 bedrooms with each pair having inter-connecting doors. As one of the youngest, I got packed off to bed early. One of my visiting uncle’s daughters was put up in the bedroom at the top of the stairs. Now my hallway cot had my head pointed towards that bedroom door while it was placed down the hall far enough to not block the doorway into the adjoining bedroom - which had its door partly open. Now comes the good bit ... the connecting door between those two.