"What's up, Baby?" I asked Jackie."We are, JR, we are. I don't know what to say except thank you. You let my fantasies come true, some of them anyway....I vacillated, even wrestled with my feelings for a few days now. I admit, I was curious, but I was also scared. I was so afraid of hurting you by trying to fulfill my own desires. Most couples couldn't do what we did and survive; at least I don't think they could." I don't think 'most couples' describes us, Jackie. I think our love goes way. .. so ill that she had to go throw up in the bathroom."You OK, honey?" asked her mother solicitously."Yeah, I think so. Must have caught a bug or something. I'll get something at school."School had just started back up after a long and very interesting summer.Robby hugged his mother and kissed her deeply on his way out. He rubbed his groin against hers and she pushed him away. "You're incorrigible!" she laughed."I hate school!" he said in a mocking angry voice."I'll be here after school" she. Way to go!"Now that they mentioned it, the last aches I'd been unaware I still possessed eased, taking away a great amount of guilt along the way."Thank you," I said quietly, looking them all in the eye. My surrogate family, for the most part, as well as my teachers, judges and saints."That doesn't mean you can do this again and get away with it," Aunt Gene warned. "Next time, it'll be time to redecorate the store."I shuddered. What usually happened was a floorboard to ceiling scrub down, every. “Yes,” she said. “Karen and Kerry. They told me you were really nice to them when they visited your Aunt Debbie’s house up on the lake.” She stretched the word ‘really’ into three syllables, raising her eyebrows as she did so. Mentally, Jim rolled his eyes.“What can I say,” he replied, “I’m a nice guy. They were very nice to me too, once we got to know each other better.”“I’d like to get to know you better too,” Marcy said, grinning. “Maybe then you’d be nice to me like you were to them.”If a.