"I've learned a lot of important things in my life, Max. One of the more practical things was that you should never fry bacon in the nude. I won't tel... you the circumstances but lets just say that some lessons are more painful to learn than others."She leaned over the bed to kiss my forehead.I put my arms around her back and hugged her. My fingers found the bow of the apron strings. As I was untying the bow Aunt Marti stood up and slapped my hand playfully."Not now, Max. We need to eat. There were actually one hundred twenty girls between eleven and thirteen years old from the foster home on a field trip to the museum. Most of these children were from homes where abuse occurred regularly. It turned out that there were nine female chaperones including the director of the facility. Except for the director, the chaperones were all between fourteen and seventeen years old.Meanwhile the lieutenant was sorting the sponsors and the concubines, and the new exhibition at the Natural. Foolishly you start to relax a little and just as you do the leather slaps hard across your arse. Try as you might you can't help but falter slightly though managing to say in position on the towel and you remember to count out loud ' one thank you.' Each time the paddle makes contact you feel the stinging increasing and are imagining how red your cheeks must be getting and deep down you hope it is having the desired effect on me. As you count out loud your body starts to shake causing the. He looked at me for a second, past me through me at me, as though some critical program in his brain was glitching; then everything snapped to life, and he said, "Did we seriously sleep together last night?" Well," I said. "Depends what you mean by 'sleep together.'" The literal meaning. Not sex. Just actual sleeping." Yeah, we did," I said."Hunh," said Brandon, and went for his own cereal bowl. "Never figured that the first time there'd be someone in bed with me, it'd be totally.