“Sorry honey that was nothing I just dropped something on my toe. So when will you be home? Tomorrow afternoon? Well your daughter is at her friend�...�s house until tomorrow night, so just stay there until then and you can pick her up on your way home. Your other son is at his friend’s for the next couple days so he’ll be back whenever. I guess my big boy and I will just have some mother-son time together. Ok, bye!”She hangs up the phone and throws it to the side. Her head arches back again as if. At the same time the responsible part of my brain was screaming that this was madness. "I think I might use the word dangerous instead of exciting. I don't know." Keep thinking about it. It will be good, clean, reduced clothing fun, I promise. You know I'm right. You've already gone from saying it's a bad idea to not being sure. Maybe a little peak would help convince you." As she said this, she lifted the edge of her shirt high enough to expose her navel. She was shimmying her shoulders at the. My skin was usually pretty nice. I guessed I waslucky that way. Sometimes I popped a zit, but at the moment I was cleanand clear and felt super pretty. As far as my amazing romantic outfitwent, it consisted just of this green t-shirt with a black longsleeve teeunder it and jeans. And a red hoodie. Sneakers on my feet.Oh... and a plastic pink barrette in my hair. And my usual beadedbracelets. I didn't want to look too much like a guy for my first gayoutting."You look adorable," Mom said. And not me. It's us." Best 'us' on the planet, little one, ' I said. A month or so into knowing her, loving her, and I was convinced. And I'd watched at school. Her gaze didn't change when she looked at boys her age. It turned into a twinkle when she looked at me.We pulled up into the driveway and went into the house. She tossed aside her backpack to bend over and pet the cat. Yeah, Tommi, who would meet me at the door with feline indifference, THAT cat. He acted like Nikki had nursed him from.