We’ve all been reacting.”She gives me another kiss, this one a peck, but still on the lips. She assigns me to chop fresh vegetables while she goes...to work on some other sides. For a short period of time, we are quiet and focused on our tasks. As we work, though, we begin chatting. Maybe, more exactly, Dori begins chatting. Her talk isn’t frantic, but slow and even, comfortable in her rambling about topics. She is talking about the story, the house, the sharing, how fortunate she feels now, the. Ten minutes later, the tyre was changed, with the damaged one stowed away. Meg had just finished feeding her son, and had placed him back in his capsule inside her SUV. He was now fast asleep.She joined Ian at the open tailgate of her vehicle, saying “Thank you very much ... I wish that I could repay you somehow”.Ian politely declined any payment.Meg stepped closer to Ian saying “I’ll have to give you a hug and kiss as payment then”.She gave him a hug, pressing her full rounded breasts into his. It was then that I realized that I had begun to give her a tongue bath.I licked her neck and down her arm, sucking each finger in turn -- then the other arm.I slowly covered the front of her body. For the second time, I dallied on her nipples, making her moan with pleasure. I worked my way down to her navel, sucking the gunk out of it then swallowing it.Like the night before, I got my head between her thighs. I liked her thighs, teasing her until she grabbed my hair and pulled it into her. She usually wasn’t even missed by her mother.I probed for why she’d taken the tack that she did, meaning towards education and adulthood, instead of becoming a free-wheeling teen that loved to party and push the limits in every direction like her mother.Christy sat silently and listened to her friend with a smile. I could tell they’d had this conversation.Ash said, “Over and over again, I realized that every day I stood at a cross roads about my own life. Mom wasn’t around, and I could watch.