.........................................................................................................At five sharp the bells rang and the girls of...all houses were awake and grumpy . The “floating” canes were busy urging slowpokes into action and finally all the girls were seated ,doing their morning shit! No girl was naughty or swore because they now knew the consequence of doing so . They all plopped nicely and in good time and stepped into the showers for their minus freezing morning. "Yeah you're still warm, but definitely not as hot as yesterday." Barbara had brought over some chicken and biscuits to feed her and Raul the night before. Since her Mother's death, Sammy had essentially taken over managing the household for her dad."So if you're feeling better, why are you bitchy?" asked Barbara with a grin."I missed Bobby's whole first day of school!" she exclaimed. "Who knows what kind of trouble he got into today? There are all sorts of assholes there he doesn't know that. And then, softer, “Please don’t. I didn’t mean to snap at you. It’s just been a long time since I thought about that book. Some of the memories in it are painful. I wasn‘t expecting it.”She took his hands again. They were gloriously warm. There was no light in the room except the stars, but Kamil’s eyes gleamed like two shiny diamonds in the dark. She leaned up to kiss him, and as her lips came to within a whisper of his…“I really should go,” he said, backing away. Miranda almost fell flat on. I had shared the wildlife pictures with Steven, back before Lana's return, and he had been tickled to see animals that would be living just outside his own bedroom window once the house was completed and we moved it. With all the hubbub of Lana's return and Angela's entry into our family, along with the new schedule of seeing her doctors--both her therapist and the gynecologist--it simply slipped my mind to make Lana aware of the joy that Steven and I were experiencing with the gamecam. And I.