I could not maintain eye contact and kept looking down while replying to her. Her voice was so smooth, it was making the hairs on the back of my neck ...tick up.Time had passed, but her heavenly gaze was not fading. She was looking right at ME! There came this awkward silence. No words were traded but smiles we plentiful. I don't know why, but I could not help but look at her lips. SO PERFECT!She slowly put her hand on my leg, with her fingers stretching way into my inner-leg. This felt weird and. After telling Elliot her story she was jonesing for a cigarette.Poppy had not had a cigarette since she arrived at the safe house,Elliot expressly forbade her from smoking indoors which meant her onlyopportunity to smoke was either before or after her morning run and PTwhich seemed contradictory.She looked up at Elliot and reached up to touch his cheek to wipe awayhis tears."What's wrong?" She sat up and looked at him concernedly; she didn'tunderstand his reaction."What's wrong?" Elliot was. Might I suggest, once we have enough members in our Youth Program, we divide them into groups and have our groups competing for awards, as well as individual member rewards?”“That’s a great idea...“Look over there at Nadine’s son, Joey. Since Nadine has declared me head of her household, I’ve personally adopted Joey as my brother. He’s really a nice young man. He was very helpful in convincing the Cox women to come visit, and then join our family. Just look at how all his sisters willingly pose. “Time to get up and go to the gym!”Marilyn struggled to focus on me, “Wha ... what?”I tapped her butt again. “Time to get up! You need to get up and get ready.”Marilyn rolled over and told me, “Go away.”“Come on, lazy bones, time to work out. You promised, remember?” I pushed her shoulder until she rolled over and swatted at me.My wife grumbled and opened her eyes. “You were serious? Do you know what time it is?”“It’s time to get up and go work out!” I pulled on her arm and got her to sitting.