I know what excited feels like, that was not excitement." It was Aaron's turn to blush. "Ahem. Um no, I mean ... sexually. You got sexually excited. T...rned on. Beth, you got turned on by what Jill was telling you. It's perfectly normal. You were curious, you liked the way it all sounded and your body reacted. There's nothing to worry about. You'll get used to it, trust me. If you're anything like me, it'll happen a lot." Aaron chuckled, but blanched when he saw the shocked expression on her. ’ Jamie acquiesced, although Steve looked less than thrilled as his sister in law pulled against him tightly. But his brother James, quickly scooped Jamie up for a dance, and he seemed a little free with his hands as well. ‘It must just be their way’ Jamie reasoned Half way through the night, most of them had warmed up to her, and seemed well over the fact that she was 15 years his junior. She headed to the ladies room and there she ran into his oldest sister, Eve as well as Cindy who was. Many of us are intimate with each other. That’s why we have these parties.”Susan stared at me for a long time and I held her eyes, hoping she got the fairly obvious message that I’d just carpet-bombed her brain with.Finally, she said, “You mean ... most of these people sleep with each other?”I snickered again in my licentious way, “I don’t think anyone sleeps too much when they’re together.”“How often do you have parties like this?”“Every two weeks most of the year. We sort of skip December. He was utterly unprepared to deal with her. He'd seenher angry before but this was something different, a type of fury he'dnever seen in her. A part of him wanted to fight back, but he feltresponsible. He was the one that had hurt her, he knew the rules, hecould have prevented this. "I'm sorry," Eric said, almost in a whisperas a deep sadness embraced him.Julia stared incredulously at Eric. "That's it? You're sorry?" I was wrong. I'm sorry," he said contritely. "I'm not sure what else tosay.