"But you will. I always pull my panties off right away." It was summer and they were lying together with the windows of the bedroom open, their bodies...cooling off from the passion that had consumed them only minutes before. They could hear the television going downstairs and the sound of kids playing outside on the streets.Danny sighed. "It's a guy thing. Look, clothes cover the body, right?" She nodded. "And yet you flirt a bit with showing your body. You know: leaving that extra button on. Two stacked young women, breast feeding babies, will draw a crowd ... of men."We need one of these for the boat," Wendy said, nodding at the Maytag.The attendant heard her. "Willard Gastineau down at the general carries the Maytag, I can call him."Wendy nodded.Young Willard was a very tall spindle of a cajun. He got right to business."Twenty-nine ninety-five complete ... two tubs and drain hose included ... plus 2 percent state and local tax and I'll deliver it. That's for the gas model ... the. "Oh, you know what I mean. I won't even be fifteen until next month and I think he likes you and Mom better." She came over to hug me and said,"Sometimes I get jealous." Any prospects at school, just in case Charles doesn't work out?" Daniel asked me to go to a party next Saturday. One of my friends is having a pool party and then we're going to stay over." If you like him that may be a start." I think I do. He broke up with his girlfriend and started talking to me. I'm looking forward to the. "I noticed you didn't start unloading anything," she said. "Should I read anything into that?"I was unsure of where to begin."I don't know if this will work," I said. "There is always going to be a residual of distrust. It has nothing to do with Tara, per se, but she exemplifies my point. When you went to L.A. the first time, I knew, at some point, that you had met someone else. I didn't know who and it really didn't matter."I suspected initially that there was a person down there this time,.