"You did?" I asked. "Are you sure it wasn't the entity getting inside your head? Your psychic friend mentioned that the spirit was longing for somethi...g maternal."She reluctantly nodded. "I'm sure. It started happening after you turned 18, I started noticing how much you resembled your father. Late at night when I was lonely, I found myself thinking of you instead of your father. I felt guilty about it every time, but I'm only human. I was eventually able to suppress it. And now it's returned. He made sure to sitnext to you and, in between interrupting the other girls to make them laughby being a bitch, he's been talking to you for a whole hour pretty much,mainly about himself.On your other side, and finishing the circle is Naomi. Melanie's best friendsince first grade, Naomi is everything she is not -- loud, crude andcarefree. She's also the only other girl in a dress -- a light greenpatterned summer shift dress that's so thin as to almost be transparent andso short that it sits. Charlie thought about that for a while. She nodded, then added 'financial independence' to the list. We didn't have any other points under this topic.That left 'who do we help.' Charlie had three listed, each with a question mark. I took out my pen and eliminated 'government' and 'military.' If either of those two groups learned about us, they would never let us free. We would be rats in a cage. It was going to be hard enough to hide our existence from them as it is.Charlie's last point on this. But, there was light at the end of the tunnel. School and work seemed to be calming down a little bit, and I decided to make things change in our sex life. I just needed some ideas on how to do that. I had read that the best way to find out what you like and what you need from your partner is to explore your body. I had done that before, but wondered if I could do something different. Now, glancing at the little blue sex toy on Jack's nightstand, I sat down on the bed and started to think..