’ My hand went to the buttons of her blouse and slowly undid them. Her eyes watched my face as I pulled the cloth back to expose her small breast wi...h the rock hard fingertip sized nipple. I smiled and lowered my mouth to suck it between my lips. When I flicked the tip of my tongue against it, she groaned deeply and said in a hoarse whisper, ‘Oh God, too late.’ Her hips pressed tightly against my thigh and she ground her sex against me, a shuddering shiver running up and down her body as her. That hand gently cupped my right breast. Since I doubted Celeste would be here in the J house when she could be staying in bed with Dad, I figured the new arrival as Meka, so I pulled my right arm from around Rhee and placed that hand on Meka’s hand on my breast.She whispered in my ear, “The bed looked so empty with only five girls in it, so I thought I’d join you.”“I’m glad,” I responded despite that that was the last thing I remembered until Rhee turned within my arms.“Oh, Meka. When did you. "That hurts!"I eased my grip and tried to unclench the bunched muscles in my shoulders. Guiding Mia to the bed, I hustled her beneath the sheets and yanked them up to her chin, all the while, she looking at me worriedly."Mommy, something is wrong," she said anxiously"Nothing is wrong," I lied. "You just need to go to sleep right now, sweetie." I tucked the covers in tightly around her, kissed her forehead and nose. Then I kissed both of her precious cheeks, her dimpled chin, the slight widows. The faces of the two women I lived with—my aunt and my younger sister—surfaced momentarily from the depths of my selfishness, but I closed my eyes to them.Aunt Riley was getting by just fine without my help, and Jessie—You’re running away from it.—was better off without a useless brother like me. I selected “no” again.There was no third prompt.Since I didn’t have anywhere in particular to go, I walked aimlessly around my small coastal Florida town of Navarre taking pictures of whatever happened.