”“Send me an invite - [email protected]. I may look a bit different than what you see on my picture,” he quickly added to the message.Kat...e inhaled deeply and released her hot breath as she logged into her Skype account. She shook her head and imagined Toby was probably obese. He probably lived in his parent’s basement and didn’t have a job. Against her better judgement, “What the hell,” she mumbled as she sipped her wine.Before sending the invite she stood up and walked over and looked. "They're all the same, these men. Still be wearing the same rags we wrap them in at birth if it was up to them. So, what is it like? Wearing one of them?" Ah, I don't know really. I just got it this morning." You just came in this morning? On the privateer? Oh yes, everyone in town knows what goes on down at the docks. Not much else going on nowadays so when someone pulls in we all know it." She paused, "May I touch it?" When Nesho nodded Marie lightly rubbed her fingers across the golden. The temperature was just around freezing, which kept the ground cover just on the verge of melting. Jack looked down the steep, long hill towards Abigail at the bottom. She was talking to one of the other sledders. He had his heels dug into the hillside to keep himself from hurtling down the hill without his passenger. He wiped the wet snow off his eyelids and glanced behind him, suddenly impatient. Allison was chatting with one of her friends from school and seemed oblivious to Jack's struggle. The twins were in their bedroom, starting to pack. They had gotten to the point where their suitcases were opened, side by side on Cory’s bed. Cory was rummaging in a dresser drawer and pulled out a pair of white bikini panties. “Are these yours?” she asked, holding them up to the light.“No! Wait, let me see them...” Laurie came across the room and grabbed them from her sister’s fingers. “Yes!” She tossed them across the room towards the suitcases; the panties landed in Cory’s.“Hey! Watch it!”.