“Are you sure you are done? Last chance.” I got so nervous I dropped a couple packets. Dad scooped them up and told me to hand all of them to him....s he held the 10 packets I tried to do the math but kept getting it wrong in my head because I couldn’t think straight. Finally, I figured if I got three pair in my five selected shades that would be 15 pair and he would probably agree to it but anything more he would balk. I selected five more pair and Dad reached toward me to take them. I exhaled. ‘Can I have my purse and lip gloss back?’ I asked, trying to pretend nothing special had happened. ‘Just relax,’ Jenny said, looking slightly exasperated, and I slumped back in my chair as all of the tension I’d been holding inside me melted away. ‘That’s better,’ she smiled, and I smiled back, knowing she was right. Part of it was relief at being able to skate out of a conversation I didn’t really want to have with her. ‘Tell me how this works,’ she prompted, holding my tube of lip gloss. ‘You. My boyfriend was on the swim team and he was built like a granite mountain. The professor was older and had a small dick, but he had big ideas. I learned a lot from him.”“Did you learn that it’s okay to come-on to your brother?”“If I want to, yes; besides, I saw you leering at me yesterday. I know what you were thinking.”“Thinking it is one thing, Fi, doing it is another.”“Little bro, sit back, relax, and let it happen. I promise you’ll enjoy yourself.” She picked up the bar of soap and began. We ate and talked about Christmas and Santa and the girls wondered if Santa would enjoy the living trees. They made plans to make cookies to leave for Santa and each time the servers came in they were amazed at what they found.“Daddy? What is lobster?” Margaret asked.“Lobster? Those are the things in the big tank at the entrance.”“Are they a fish?”“No, dear. They are crustaceans. They have a very hard shell and those pincers are what they use to eat and protect themselves.”“Daddy, are they.