I hadn't had much conversation with her mother before the ceremony, but as Cindy was getting changed back into her street clothes and her father was r...trieving the car, she took me aside."So you're the young man who's been screwing our daughter. I've been wanting to meet you!" It's not like that, Mrs. Martin..." I stammered."Oh, but it's exactly like that, Hank. And I want you to know that we have no objections. Cindy assures me that you've always used birth control, and that you respect her,. *****"I've got a present for you," Zoe said, taking a sip of her wine."You do? For me? I'd flutter my eyelashes but they're on the tablethere."Zoe left Andy half-naked in the kitchen, and returned a few momentslater with the boutique shopping bag she had brought with her. She setit down on the table in front of Andy. The bag read "Boobytrap" on theside, in delicate swirling letters."I figured with summer coming, and now your date, you might like this."Zoe sat back and watched her friend and. ‘I was only a child and on countless nights, I was the one who ran down the hallway to pull my father off of her.’ ‘Michael…’ Marlene said, ‘Please, you don’t have to say anymore.’ ‘It seemed to happen every night, even though it didn’t. I don’t know how my younger sisters and I made it through school, since we spent most of our childhood awake at night, shaking, and crying.’ I continued to tell her about the hellish life which we lived, and how we didn’t know what the days or nights were going. “Better NOT be that ‘lite stuff’,” I laughed.“I know, just jerkin’ your chain. But which do you prefer, Shiner Bock, or Yuengling? They got ‘em both in at the store. Wanna make sure I got the right one. And Kay doesn’t like beer at all, does she?”“Either one’s good for me, thanks, actually, the Yuengling would be a real treat, and one or two six-packs should be more than enough. Don’t wanna get too wobbly out there, especially on an unfamiliar boat. And no, she doesn’t care much for beer. I was.