I wentinto my room and sat at my desk trying to come up with the answer.I remembered pulling the clothes out of the dryer. I usually don't dryher bras...in the dryer because everyone knows that's bad for the lacymaterial. I would have hung it to dry on a clothes hanger right abovethe dryer. That's what I do with all her other bras. When I empty thedryer, I hang things quickly so I don't have to do a lot of ironing.Some things I pull directly from the dryer into the laundry basket, butI would have. Plus I think he did agreat job tonight playing Dorothy."Tim's mom looks at Tim saying, "After what I watched you do to both ofthem, you're actually going to try and tell me that he hit you for noreason! Is that that what I'm hearing you say?" Well missy that's not the way we saw it." You see Timmy dear, the two of us have been standing over therewatching for the last 10 minutes. We both heard and saw everything youand Dan did."Now as to what I heard that girl say, it seems you two boys have. I was about ready to explode! She got up, winked at me and then got out of the hot tub, grabbed a towel, dried off and headed into the house. Things like the hot tub incident continued and it seemed it was all I could do to keep from giving in. I was surely enjoying the teasing but there was still the fact that she was my step-daughter. Finally after a year or so I had enough of the teasing and decided to tease back. I had just returned from one of my usual ten or twelve day business trips. "The constant feeling of euphoria supplied by her worm still remained, at least for now, but Cassie could feel the edges of her old emotions begin to return.Cassie hadn't spoken to Julie in two weeks, and began to feel the sense of loss that had long been denied her.She really didn't want to rejoin the real world.The last two weeks had been an adventure, and she must have worked hundreds of hours with the worms. She held a mirror up to their hosts, helping the worms understand the essential.