She saw me struggle and helped. She moved close until we were touching along our bodies.I smiled. “Did you help your brothers tie their ties?”“Y...s, but never standing this close. I like helping you dress.” She grinned. “I like helping you undress even more.”I smiled at her as she finished my tie. We went out through her door. Aaron caught us. “Changing together?”“No, Agnes used her room and I used mine. We met in the bathroom for her to brush her hair and me tie my tie. I quickly found that. You either eh?”“naw not with the folks bumping uglies”“they are frisky ain’t they”“every Friday night, with out fail. I try to stay out later but this time”“yeah I know, wanna hang out with me downstairs? Have a beer?”“cool”We went down to the finished basement where the couch was already pulled out but there was also a pool table, pinball machine, wet bar and many sports trophies and memorabilia around his big screen television. A real man cave. I went behind the bar and opened a bottle of. “Hold on,” I told her. “I’ve spoken to Tom. Come inside and I’ll tell Toby and your mum at the same time.”I told the family the little extra I’d been told. We discussed it for another ten minutes, but there was little more to say without knowing the details. I agreed that I’d go and give him a provisional yes.“There’s no ‘provisional’ about it old chap. You’re either all the way in, or all the way out. If you say no, you won’t be allowed to come in later. If you say yes, you’re committed.”“Even. He had spent two days wrangling there twin eight year old son's Jason and Justin and was happy to get out of there, he was also happy about the paycheck in his hand, they always paid him well with a sizeable tip. It was a clear summer morning and the fourteen year old headed down the sidewalk for the mile long walk home. McMillan Park between him and his house.There were several entrances to the park, most pathways that led between two homes into the wooded edges of the park as well as the main.