Meredith wondered fleetingly if the girl was happy about her lack of clean clothing. "You brought a swimsuit. We're thinking about moving our picnic t... the lake tomorrow. Erin said she had a suit you could borrow but, uh, I'm sure you would have to think twice about borrowing swimwear."Meredith shrugged. It wasn't something she had ever considered – because she was so much taller than everyone she hung out with it was never an option."I'm going to have to wash and dry some things," she said. "I. Once Jackie was happy that Dan was going to find it hard just to sit down for quite some time, she reckoned she had won, even though she was going to stop, on the basis that Dan was no longer able to ask her to stop because he was crying so much. So, she stopped spanking him, glared at the back of his head, and ordered, “Okay, Dan, you can get up now. Consider yourself fully spanked.”As Dan pushed himself up, still crying, he really couldn’t work out whether he had won the argument by refusing. ” I asked her.“Oh God, I have no idea Jeff.” she replied, “But I do think we should wait a while.”We agreed to keep the relationship under our hat for a while and let her divorce become final. Then when she had no ties, we would tell the family.Over the next several months, Beth and I spent as much time together as we could, considering the circumstances. We were very careful when we were together, to keep it very innocent looking. In fact we went out together to restaurants several times, even. "Well... someone might have said that Hope was waspish this week because she wasn't getting any... You know..." Brianna?" Shawna asked, but Hope shook her head."Elspeth." Lorraine." Marcus admitted, after a few seconds."Lorraine!" Hope appeared surprised. "Oh... anyway, no, it's not a sexual thing, in fact it's almost exactly the opposite." What do you want him for, then?" My Dad's coming to visit." And you've told him you've got a boyfriend?" I've sort of hinted, trying to get him to leave me.