”Oh crap! Not now!“I’m sorry, Damon,” I said to the boy standing behind me. “I have to work.”“Making pictures is work?”“It’s what ... do in school.”“In first grade we learn to write.”Well, that was true enough. But right now, I was focused. That session Sunday afternoon was still fresh in my mind. I hadn’t been able to think of anything else all day. I sketched all through Art History in the dark. At lunch, I ran to Daniel Smith and picked up five 22 by 30-inch sheets of 140 pound Arches. I think that's how it started ... but now I just feel like she is doing her best to drive me away.''That doesn't surprise me.' Keira said. 'Pepper is strong on her own, even with Ryan, it seems like she cared about him, but it was just convenient. With you ... well I can talk from personal experience when I say you're a heady drug.''You can talk, look at you! Did you get plastic surgery while I was away.'Keira blushed crimson. 'No, silly, it's called growing up.''Aww, you look cute when you do. I stared at her as she walked around the room practically naked. All that was covering her was her purple panties. ‘Why are you staring at me like that?’ She asked as she was combing her hair in front of the mirror. I replied, ‘Because you have an amazing body and I enjoy looking at it.’ She giggled and then turned to me and started to strut over to the bed. I stared at her hips swung from side to side and she inched closer and closer. She was biting her bottom lip and had a devilish grin on. And the black man.”“How does he compare?” I asked.“Drugs more than booze,” Lindy shrugged. “And I don’t know how true the stereotype may be, that black men tend to leave the family, his children raised by his wife.”“I’ve heard enough stories to make it not just incidental,” Tash nodded.“The distraction, taking attention literally away from the family, may not be drug related,” I pointed out.“But it could be, for the play,” said Tash. “The allure of crack.”“Drugs anthromorphized?” Lindy.