" I agree," Tim smiled at her."What did you and our son do this weekend?" she asked.Andy started choking."We did a lot of touring," she replied, stifl...ng a giggle. "He knows his way around so he showed me a lot of the city I didn't know too much about." I thought you were born and raised here?" Joyce asked."I was, but my parents kept tight controls over me. I didn't have the advantages because of them stifling and depriving me of living like every other girl growing up." I see," Joyce said. "My. Merrilee licked her fat lips, propping herself up on a slim elbow. "... And eating barbecued ribs... shuffling the feet... saying 'Yow-sah!' to every white man you meet," she said, somewhat irritated. "Don't you tell me how to act, Jane Hawser. Don't you dare tell me being afraid of that monster dog of yours makes me a stupid nigger!" I didn't say that..." Jane protested."Shit if that wasn't what you were getting at!" Merrilee cried. "I can't help it if I don't like dogs. And I sure don't like. And now in a moment of anger I had just fucked the whole thing up.I had wanted him so bad, that I became afraid of the possibility of making a fool out of myself, and never considered the fact that he might actually like me too.Then I remembered that one of the things he did to trigger what I did had been him telling me that he thought I was pretty. He had fumbled around with it, but it finally came out. That was probably why he'd had to pay other people to send me the frigging flowers. That. ”“Whoring around sounds okay.”“Different kind of whoring, smartass” she said. “I guess successfully confronting, then exiling Phil together put Clayton in my deepest trust circle. So my first time was both special and safe, psychologically. I don’t think you have... porn level sex as a pseudo-virgin without establishing trust first.”“Yeah, going from virgin to sex bomb in one hour... seems a little unbelievable.”“But it happened. Mom’s a medical scientist, essentially, and so are her parents. I.