"I'm not gonna do anything. Honest."DJ blinked her eyes back to life and looked up at him."Uh?" She said, puzzled. "Wha... what do you mean?'"I said,"...he repeated. "I'm not gonna do anything." Oh," she said, still dazed. "I knew that."Joey was a bit uncomfortable with her still staring at his crotch. But DJ was more curious than anything else. They talked a lot about guys penises in Sex-Ed, but she had never seen one before. And before she realized what she was doing, she reached up and touched. He threw some porn on TV and I got really hard. There was some lesbian porn which is my favorite. But then he switched over to gay porn and I lost my nerve. I chickened out. I left. A couple of times, once in New Jersey and another time and Southern Cal, I invited guys over to my hotel room. When the guy in NJ showed up and knocked on my door and I pretended I wasn’t there. I chickened out. The other time I invited a guy over under the pretense that we would only watch a little porn, talk a. I found out later you had a bit of a reputation. Some of the girls said you were quite the good screw. I knew that to be true, but wondered how they knew. They just told me they heard it from one of your girlfriends.”“Melanie or Jennifer, probably. They thought it was funny to brag about me.”“Well, considering how good it was, you can brag, I guess. I really owe you an apology for basically dragging you into bed without considering what you thought. But look at it from my perspective. I thought. They were fairlycommon even in the city, but others not so common were also present. Tosay nothing of the nocturnal birds that were present and keeping quietwhile the sun was overhead.A turkey buzzard had roosted in the upper branches of one of the largertrees and had declined to leave. And then there were the tree rodentsand insects and serpents. All of them could pierce the wall easilyenough and make their way past it and for the most part none of thesewere trouble yet in any serious.