"I was afraid you were never going to wake up again, Lauren."Part 3.Sighing, I examined my reflection in a mirror over one ofthe wash basins in the gi...ls' restroom. That long plain face,the straight, brown hair with that unflattering fringe, andthe unattractive glasses had become a familiar sight overthe past few weeks and I was no longer surprised by what themirror showed me. Of course, the band-aid holding the bridgeof those glasses together was new, and I knew that Mom wasnot going to like. Pamela, who was a generous girl, let Moïra, Marsha, Madame Claude and a few others sniff Dora’s juice-filled underwear. There was a special auction starting at 3PM but the women still had an hour to mix in couples or groups in the various rooms before the show started. Reena was present at the auction that morning even though she was bruised and aching. She had a black eye and some hair missing near her forehead. Her top lip had been split but cuts were covered by band-aids. Élise had retreated. I stopped dead in my tracks, frozen not moving a muscle looking at this petite drop dead woman naked as a jay bird sunning herself. Have you ever seen a naked woman before she said? Hello, You hoo hello.I came out of my stuper and realized I was getting a hardon and there was not one dam thing I could do about it.I said I was not expecting to see a woman with no clothes on out back here.I said I guess you like tanning even Huh?She smiled and said yes, it keeps the men happy.Well I'm happy right. We watched horror movies on the old black and white TV in the back room of her parents house, our bodies huddled close as our own skin to skin contact generated sweat in the summer heat. I could feel her breath in the darkness of that room as we shared a pizza or a soda. We gradually increased the depths of our explorations as satin smooth skin gave way to hungry fingers. Every inch of newly exposed flesh was territory that needed to be explored and I was always the willing explorer. The summer.