" I bought you some flowers," said Kevin, sheepishly handing over the bunch he'd bought on the way.Sindy looked at them with a slightly puzzled frown...."They are very nice," she said. "Thank you."She took them from his proffered hand and placed them on the counter. Tim tucked them away, betraying no expression on his face.Sindy led Kevin to one of the rooms. It was dominated by a huge bed and illuminated by holograms of attractive women. Kevin sat on the bed next to Sindy. She put an arm around. I better get these sheets washed and dried before your father gets home.”VII“Hi Dad!” I said as I walked into the kitchen the next morning. Dad was sitting at the kitchen table, apparently reading multiple newspapers at once. His luggage was resting in the hallway. He must have taken the cross-Atlantic red eye.“Hey Teddy,” he said, barely glancing up from his papers. “Been keeping out of mischief?”An image of Mom lying beneath me with her legs d****d over my shoulders flashed before my eyes.. Mom had a much nicer bathroom than mine. It had a large bath at one end and at the other a spacious 'walk-in' type shower. The shower area was very roomy -- I'd say you could fit three people in there easily, and it had all manner of jet sprays as well as the traditional shower head type fitting. The nice thing about this was that you could just walk in, pull the frosted glass door across and start showering -- no messing about standing in a bathtub or cramped shower cubicle -- it was very. Is it any wonder that she closed herself off and focused solely on Suzy?”Brock closed his tired eyes and tried to calm his nerves. It didn’t work.“Leslie, I’m going to say this once and only once,” he said more evenly than he felt. “This has nothing to do with you. You might think it does, but you’re wrong. You’ve butted into my business since the week I moved in here. You’re not welcome in this portion of my life so it stops here and now.“Please think about this. I was the youngest male ever.