He looked down at the foot of the bed and saw his mother stumble by. Just as he was about to say something his mother stopped at the bathroom door and...pulled her dress down to her ankles. Ryan's eyes lit up like pie plates. Before him now his mother was naked except for a black thong."Oh shit." Ryan thought as his mother closed the door.Ryan laid there in the dark with his heart beating like crazy. In just a few minutes his drunken mother is going to come out of the bathroom and get into bed. .that's so sweet about your kids," Anita said. "I hope one of these days to have some kids."Taking the final swig of his Corona, John responded, "yeah, it's kinda nice. Just try paying their bills and trying to get them to go to bed." Holding up his empty beer bottle, he joked "why do you think I drink this stuff from time to time." Looking at his empty bottle, he realized that he wanted another beer. He called the attention of one of the waiter's floating through the bar. Once he got their. My wife's attention snapped back at the mention of STD checks for our 2 children, and then truly balked at the prospect of performing a pap smear not only on herself, but also on Ashley. "Surely she doesn't need one of those yet. She's still a teenager," She paused, and leaned closer to the doctor. "And she isn't sexually active."Ashley in turn flushed bright red, almost matching her hair. "Mom!" she shrieked in embarrassment. Helen, standing behind my family, offered the teen a consoling. We need to recall the miracle of this new soul, this new person who has a chance of a good life in spite of everything, if we work to give it to her." Very true. I'm inclined to agree entirely with you there," a voice from behind me interjected.I turned and saw Marcy Swenson, Shelby's mother, who looked very much alive to me, despite having died a suicide."Marcy ... to what do I owe the pleasure, and the honor, for that matter?" I asked the angel."I told you that I would come for you, and here.