Then she said, "Well I suppose now is as good a time as any to face the music.Billy continued to stand there and gape as his aunt started off in the d...rection of the kitchen.Concerned because her son had failed to answer her call, Paula had gotten up from the table. She met her sister at the kitchen door, and nearly collapsed."Maude!" she exclaimed. "Good Lord, I hardly recognized you!" The others in the kitchen stared, speechless. "Paula, is there a place where we can go to talk?Maude asked.. “Fuck, it’s gross out there,” Joanne said as she closed the door behind her.“Tell me about it,” Suzanne said.She lay on her bed, naked, a fan moving air over her body as she read a magazine.“Where are the fun sisters,” Joanne asked.“Main. There’s a game of Capture the Flag with the guys. Someone had to act as a chaperone.”“Glad it wasn’t us.”As she talked, Joanne pulled her sweat-soaked shorts off and tossed them in a corner, followed by her t-shirt.“You’re going to want to hang those up, or. .. So I ... I didn't mean to..." Alison!" Her eyes blinked and she focused on my face. "Take your time and begin at the beginning, tell me what it is you want to say one step at a time."I watched as her chest undulated as she took a deep breath, "Right," she said before blinking a couple of times."I'd forgotten my juice, which was in the refrigerator and came back to collect it," she said and all of a sudden I had an inkling of where this conversation was going."As there didn't appear to be. The likelihood of a prank or some other deviousness from her wasn’t completely forgotten, but my emotions had shoved the ideas to a distant corner of my mind. If only I could accept whatever she wanted, I’d have the answer to what we were going to do. All I had to do was relax, if I could.The bedroom she chose was nicely furnished, but didn’t feel lived in. The bed looked like a queen size, but with all the pillows and the bulky comforter, I could have been mistaken. Curtains closed off the.