The buzz was all about who was going where and for some, with whom they were going. I hadn’t made any plans myself. Until Tvisha, my boss’s assist...nt, mentioned she was going to a masquerade ball. You see, I guess I’m one of those girls they say is in the closet. I don’t consider myself lesbian. I don’t find most women attractive. Not sexually, anyway. But Tvisha, she was one of those rare few that sparked something inside me.I decided I’d go to that ball and if my courage held and the timing. Soft cries fled her lips despite her attempts to be silent.Oh, what does it matter? There’s no one to hear, and no sound will pass these rocks.The nervous cough that shattered her rhythm was, she later concluded, absolutely inevitable. She stilled all motion, but didn’t bother to open her eyes.“Why must you be here?” she demanded. “Again?”“I ask again, Elfhelm: why are you here? Why do you follow me into the shadows, night after night? Are you so desperate for unwilling company?”The word. I walked in the door, and she locked it behind us. We walked over to her desk and she came up and sat on the edge of it as she talked. "Ok to bring up your grade I have an idea…" "What is it?" I asked. "I'll do whatever it takes. I don't want to repeat the year." "I'm glad to hear that Tommy," she said. She put her hand on my shoulder, and said "I'm going to perfectly honest with you, Tommy. My husband hasn't given me the attention I need." At this time I'm thinking, Fuck, her old man is an. Saturday would be an all-day training session and she was certain she would find out all the ins and outs of the cheerleader squad operations. Hopefully, Veronica would approve a couple of the new moves that Candy had devised in the privacy of her pink themed bedroom with only Lucille as her sounding board. Now that Lucille and her brother was an item, she could add Charlie to her audience for such private shows and didn’t have to worry about him getting rambunctious over her skimpy costume..