I watched him go up and down his yard. Thinking, what if he was going up and down on me. All my kids were now in school, and I became very aware of my...own body after having the three of them. I worked out very hard to get the body I had before giving them birth. There would be no more births because a simple operation took care of that.With my three in school, I would walk around my house nude in heels. I would pass every mirror to check on how I was doing with my recovery to youth. The better. Billie had never liked her stepmother much anyway and now she decided that the haggy old woman was out to get her.Of course she shouldn't have been with Hanson like that, but he'd been nice enough and no harm had come of it. Nora's anger made her want to rebel against the old woman's prejudices. Their family had lived near Hanson's folks for years. It seemed wrong somehow, Billie thought, for Nora to blame her for something as innocent as getting a lift home.And there was something else that. Once in it, he was elevated by Billy Foreman to an extent, largely due to a sheer lack of competition. Billy saw Stick as sort of the ‘youth leader’ of the local Klan, to whatever extent one existed, even if he was also known to be gay. It was an open secret in the local Klavern, of course, Oliver and Stick, and tolerated only because they stuck to each other instead of buggering any lads,” Gavin explained that mystery as well.“Beggars can’t be choosers,” Stick shrugged now, “the Klan didn’t. Just like her ol' man, three-quarters hot air."Lucy snapped at him angrily at the mention of her father. "How dare you say that about my father! You don't know what you're talking about, he was dead long before we met and you know it. And anyway, I have nothing further to say to you, David... we're through, finished! I never want to see you again... never!"The youth's cock-sure sneer turned up at the corners and became a wicked grin that spoke of untold terror yet to come, and Lucy instantly.