Then they reserved it for last Friday so they could get in ahead of you.”“Dammit, I should have known,” Cal growled. “It was that goddam Ross!...��The large woman snapped her head in Cal’s direction.“It was Jack Ross. We thought it was okay,” she pleaded.“And it was,” Roxie was quick to add. “Look, take these Tucker Buttons and pass them out. That will help even things out.”Roxie poured the two dozen or so buttons into a bag that she had used to bring them in and tried to hand it to the woman.“Just. Then this beauty stood up from resting place on the railing and stood inches from me. She looked up at me with big blue eyes and said, “Not good for doing it myself, but exciting if you have someone to help.” She took my right hand in hers and moved it to the bottom of her shirt. She slowly raised my hand until my fingers felt the soft, damp wetness between her thighs. My fingers instinctively slid along her tender slit and I watched as her eyes closed and she let out a soft moan. Red Flag! Red. I mean, look how...”“Blessed, sir?”“Yeah, how blessed I am! They’re all ... you’re all stunning. And if they grow to be as beautiful as you and Lisa as they get older ... holy shit, why would I ever want to leave my bedroom?”“Spoken like a young man watching his horizons steady after some hard times, sir,” Lisa said. “But I think you already know there’s a lot more life out there outside the bedroom.”“I agree, sir,” Jackie said. “For now ... part of you wants to learn, to ‘go back to school’,. “Eric please.” Her voice cracked. Eric punched a nearby wall and his fist went right through it. He was so mad he didn’t even pay attention to the pain he got in his arm. He couldn’t even believe that their mom didn’t say anything to Ashley, didn’t even show any sign that she cared, but he knew they should have expected this. It had been like this forever. Eric took his hand out of the wall and went into his own room. A few hours later, Eric’s cell phone rang loudly in his ear, waking him up.