There was a huge Rhino TV on in the dressing room area where there were a number of women trying on new frocks. It was springtime, everyone should hav... a new frock he thought, especially his daughter.He was captivated by the screen and as he riffled through the racks of dresses his attention kept returning to the videos showing young women modeling some of the revealing designs. His confusion was obvious to a beautiful black girl, Lucy, who came over and asked if she could help. She was dressed. I walked over to her work and examined the petals. Damn fine job for one’s first cuts. I could tell by the scraps she had overdone the necessary number of cuts trying to achieve perfection, but experience would cure her of that. I walked over to the stereo and turned off the music. ‘They’re perfect,’ I said. ‘I had trouble with the tops of the heart part,’ Amber explained, ‘I’m not sure it’s right.’ ‘Nature is not perfect and neither should your petals be,’ I responded, ‘it is what makes them. " Ah, pouring all the attention on himself," dad jokes, though I can tellfrom mum's facial expression that she finds the whole idea of me goinginto hospital VERY unsettling. "I remember the last time you were inhospital- after your first year of uni, wasn't it?" Yep," I say. "Just after Emma graduated. Went into hospital to preventmyself from ever having to go into hospital for the reason Emma's inthere now, ironically enough..."In the summer of 2009, most of my friends made plans to go on. To the surprise of both of them, she had done it a couple of times, with Laura's help. But Laura knew that even having this gift, she wouldn't necessarily be able to do it every time. It was worth checking to see if she felt she was presently vulnerable to that particular sweet possibility.Ada's black eyes were swirling and pulsing. Her expression told Laura that such sexual arousal, even with Louise, was rare. She was malleable and supple in Laura's hands, her flesh ready to do Laura's.