..thanks," Chris said as he accepted the envelope and looked at thepaperwork inside. After just a quick look through, everything she'djust given him ...ooked to be in order. And though he was no expert, hethought they looked authentic too."I hate paperwork," Chiff muttered, giving Chris a stead look as sheadded, "I hope you appreciate that..." I do," Chris told her quickly. "I really do." Okay then," Chiff said, looking at her wrist as though checking thetime on a watch even though she wore no. Once or twice their mother is mentioned and an awkward silence ensues and maybe a tear or two, but we manage to get past that. There is a lot to catch up on, and dinner goes very well. I really like these boys.After dinner, we decide to study together. (On a Friday night? Sure.) The twins are really good 9th grade students taking the best classes. Finals are coming up, so we spend two hours going over geometry and biology. They readily pick up on the concepts and they tell me that I do a. Somehow, Kimberly felt a kind of kinship with Martina although she didn’t know why. Chris Evert was her idol, pretty and feminine yet a great athlete but when Martina won the match Kimberly jumped up and let out a whoop."Well, Chris is so popular, maybe I feel sorry for Martina, she's not that bad a person," thought Kimberly.After dinner, Kimberly did her homework in front of the TV. She decided to watch TV shows she usually never watched.She saw an episode of "Ellen" and then "Xena: Warrior. What I wanted was to know that she’d be willing to do that for me. What I wanted was a visible manifestation of all those ‘I adore you’s’ and ‘I’ve never loved anyone the way I love you’s’. I wanted to know that she loved me enough to put herself in my hands, to cede control to me. I admit it—I’m twisted, I’m warped. That kind of thing is important to me. It speaks to me of trust and love and deep devotion. She claimed she couldn’t give that to me because it didn’t speak to her in the same way.