We all lived near a lake and a bunch of us would get together and swim and then we would light a fire and sit around and just goof off. Sometimes some...ne would steal their parent’s cigarettes and we would act cool and smoke and sometimes someone may sneak in a few beers. It was all harmless kid fun. A few of the older girls would sneak off at times with some of the guys and would come back laughing and I later found out they had sex. It was a few days later that summer that this guy Mark, he. Marty finally removed his intense gaze from me. ‘I don’t know what made Terry want to tell me this now. She seems to think you’ve felt this way since college.’ He looked at me again. ‘Is it true?’ I finally gathered my wits about me. ‘Marty, I don’t know what Terry told you, but I haven’t had those feelings in a really long time. I love you. I really do. But as my great friend. My brother.’ I sat forward and put my hand on his arm. ‘I realized a long time ago that I had to stop living in a. Amelias back slid down the wall, until she was sitting on the floor of the shower, hot water pouring over her, burning. She licked her lips, enjoying the wet, sensual feel of it, and pushed against herself harder, grinding her palm against her cunt, grunting with exertion. A thousand overlapping images spun through her mind, many of them memories, late nights, dark places, cool sheets, sweating bodies, soft lips, soft whispers, and heated screams. She hunched over, the muscles of her abdomen. He could read sadness and resolution in her eyes. There was still warmth though. He took a deep breath."Tell me, Tig." I need to tell you more about me," she said quietly, "because at the moment I'm not being fair to you. The reason that my parents divorced was because my father sexually abused me three years ago." Oh, you poor d-dear," he caught himself from saying 'darling' as his suppositions became concrete. "That's horrible. What's happened to him?"Annette told him what her mother had.