He stopped briefly and turned back to us, “Help yourself to the guest bedroom. Elena you can always come in here with Chu and I if you would rather,...�� he laughed and then walked off to his bedroom. Elena and I got up and without saying a word went to the guest bedroom, plopped on the bed and passed out. The next morning I woke up first and nudged Elena to get up. I just wanted to leave and told Elena to get dressed. I walked out to use the hallway bathroom and when I came out Henrick was. I haven't had sex except with my fingers since I was ten and I've told you about that. I've never been in love before and I include my bitch of a mother, and I've never been loved, though I've got some brothers and half-brothers who hate and detest me. Working all that together means I have never needed protection, you know, birth control, so..." She sighed, "Manny is right, the word he used was taciturn." Maureen, look at me. No, look me in the face. When I was just in front of the TV with the. Fortunately for us Fran’s uncle Ben offered to let us stay with him until we could get back on our feet. He lived alone in a large house. His wife, Fran’s aunt had died some years ago. I wasn’t totally looking forward to moving in with Uncle Ben because like the rest of Fran’s family he was a lazy slob. The house was dirty and unkempt and Uncle Ben always wore the same dirty vest and shorts. He stank to high heaven. Still beggars can’t be choosers and we moved in. Pretty quickly it seemed that. Struggling to swallow without taking a mouthful of paste with me, I blinked my eyelids, but would not look away from the tiny little face at my feet. Cursing God for creating such a creature, I glared down at her. My eyebrows were beginning to pull together as I frowned at the cat, cursing God again, cursing the cat, cursing all cats everywhere, and finally cursing myself for caring for such a frustrating creature. This battle would not be over soon, and I feared that my ‘pet’ would win. Her.