“How are you Brita?” he asked as she slipped in on the opposite side of Tamara.“I’m very well” she smiled and lifted her glass, “This is a...bit of a surprise, though, a very pleasant one though.”“A toast to very pleasant surprises?” offered Tamara as she hoisted her glass.Chris and Tamara simultaneously said “Cheers!” as Brita replied with “Skál!”“So what brings you to Reykjavik?” she asked.“Simply you,” Tamara answered gaining a smile from the woman; “And in particular a tattoo!”Brita looked. I enjoyed it and your seed tasted good. I have never been with a man but ... I did break my maidenhead.”I grinned and looked at the boiler and stood, “it looks like we have hot water.”I opened the spigot and hot water poured into the tub. Once the water was warm but not to hot I shut it off and pulled the fire tray out from under the boiler. Sai slipped into the bath and sighed and I hesitated before I knelt beside it and started to wash her. Of course I also enjoyed feeling her smooth skin and. They didn’t wrestle in the middle of the living room floor. He had no idea what to do with her and there was no one to tell him how to be a father to a little girl.She was smart like her mother and he took a lot of pride in that. She made good grades in school and would show him her grade reports. He’d tell her that she did well, but it seemed to him that she was disappointed by his reaction. His wife on the other hand jumped up and down on seeing the report. The reaction always seemed a little. Lots of people said ‘Hello’ to her and, by implication, to him. For the first time Dan felt as though he was real, he purposely used a low voice to reply in the same offhand way Petra was doing, even though he could kiss those who had acknowledged his presence. This was the heady world he had only seen from the sidelines, he purposely looked for others who he knew would only glance shyly in their direction from the periphery, graciously saying ‘how are you doing’? Did his mouth drop open like.