It was awesome at the party seeing all the men of her office stealing looks at her when they could and I got more excited as the evening progressed. ... asked Jess to point out the guys who had been harassing her over the last couple of weeks and she in turn pointed out a group of 4 guys standing in a group talking.I made sure Jess always had a full glass of wine in her hand and later in the evening she was getting pretty drunk. As I noticed her getting more relaxed from the alcohol I took the. She looked like one of those girls who thought that ice wouldn't melt in her mouth.But something gave me a hunch that she would melt in mine.I stood there for a moment. I had to remember what she'd asked me."Excuse me?" Jessica Peterson...is that your daughter?"I didn't know Jessica Peterson from a hole in the ground but if it would get me into the hot teacher's classroom, I'd have said I was Hitler's Mother."Yup," I said, "That's my little girl."The teacher nodded, still with that disapproving. .”“Trust me, Buddy. I’m going to have even more fun than you will, and I won’t get a hangover from it,” I said, laughing.By nine, Buddy was history, off to wherever he was getting drunk and stoned at. I grabbed my toilet kit and a towel and headed down the hall. I took another shower, and shaved again, because you never want to be the one to cause rug burns. (Actually, that was sort of overkill. My beard really didn’t get heavy until I was almost twenty. A second shave in one day was more along. Do you want a hug, too?” he asked, but she just looked at him. Without overthinking it, he hugged her. She was tense, but didn’t growl or otherwise show aggression, and he thought that she may have leaned a little into him.Unconsciously smiling, he went back inside to feed the chickens and fix breakfast.As he sat on a piece of firewood to watch the meat cook, his eyes drifted about the cave. Getting up, he took the light and walked farther into the cave. Away from the fire, the temperature.