Damn, he knew I wanted him now, but I just can’t help that I still blush like I have a school girl crush when I look into those hazel eyes ... After...visiting with him and his coworkers for a while, I promised I’d see him at home a bit later, turned around and innocently strutted out the store knowing damn well he watched me walk away, thinking about me in all the RIGHT ways.On my drive home, I could feel myself getting more and more excited as I thought about what might happen when he got home.. I pulled open the top of it and paused. Standing up I looked at Kurt and said, “Young man, you're all sweaty, hold on just a second.”I grabbed one of the clean rags from a shelf and gently begin padding the sweat from his chest and stomach. I couldn't help but admire his form.I pointed at another box and asked, “Could you grab that one for me too?”Kurt responded, “Anything you need ma'am.”I giggled as I thought to myself, “You have no idea what I need.”As Kurt reached for the box I pretended. There is, you see, a certain gravity to the footsteps we follow. Uncle Chuck was a little miffed and I’m sure Dad was laughing his ass off while arm wrestling Toulouse Lautrec over a bottle of absinthe in the Parisian whorehouse that must surely be his heaven. ◊◊◊◊◊ I had been around enough docks and boats by that time to know that families are like tides. There’s an ebb and flood to our anguish and joy, dangerous currents swirl around the rough edges of their need. But there’s a sort of. We spent a lot of evenings together just talking.Philadelphia Texas, our hometown, had self-destructed years ago. The economy was in the toilet. Diane’s parents went down to Odessa to work in the oilfields. Nobody would buy land for what it should have been worth, so her and her brothers bought a few distressed properties. When my lease was up she gave us a deal, and Lydia and I moved into a little house on one of those farms.Diane acquired a girlfriend, Meiko. She didn’t flaunt it, but she.