The captain was at the far end and he stood up when I entered. He was dressed as the night before. "What's this? Why's she wearing that garment?" "I...'s the sheet from her bed, sir. She insisted, sir. I tried to tell her not to," said the cabin boy. The captain nodded and sent him away and approached me. "Well, well, I see a night of rest has restored your spirit, my girl. I appreciate your spirit but you'd do better to learn some humility. We'll have to let you sleep on a wooden bench. There are perverts out there, all over the place. She convinced them I was going to be raped and left for dead the second I set foot on the sidewalk. And they went for it, hook, line and sinker. That's another area where Mom's brains don't quite work. I'm her baby. Fourteen years old and she'd have me in diapers if she thought she could get away with it.Did I mention that Tiffany's a blonde? Well, she was just so proud of herself, spoiling my night out. And then Mom told her that she was going. "Do you only do that when you get mad Daddy?" Belle asked."I have to be really, really angry, yes." Were you mad at me and Tink 'cause we weren't in bed?" AJ asked. Tink's eyes got very big. When my son noticed his sister's reaction to his question he immediately hopped off my leg and hurried over to where she was sitting and took her hand in his. AJ glared at me as if Tink's anxiety were my doing. Which I guess, in a way, it was.I examined their faces closely for a few moments, mixed emotions. "Well come on out here then! Bring me another beer, the cooler's empty." Irealized I'd need footwear after all and quickly slipped the flipflops on,thinking "flipflops, that's exactly what my heart is doing in my chest!" Iwent to the fridge and got him another beer, suddenly feeling very girly,fetching a beer for my "boyfriend" and called out through the open door,"Would you like anything else?" Nope, just the beer and yourself!"I was almost skipping while I opened the beer and came back out.