. Okay," he was grinning.It's always sorta awkward being with someone like that. I mean, I'd gotten picked up before, you know, taken home after a nig...t out and there's always a little time it takes to adjust. Outside is one thing, you can act a little weird there, but inside a home? Fuck. I never had one of my own. I always felt like I was visiting the zoo or something.The bedroom was big, the whole place was really. Too big for the lack of stuff. But everything was small nowadays, getting. Both Billy and Ann said to hell with it and headed home.They arrived home to a riotous greeting from Maria and only a slightly more sedate greeting from Josh and Nancy. All three were happy when Billy announced that this had been the last trip for this year. It was already getting too uncomfortable to travel, so there was not much point in patrolling until spring.Two notable things happened that winter: Maria's son, Billy, Jr., was born, and Ann showed up pregnant. Billy was caught on the horns. Then she gasped at the volume of fluid that drained out of her vagina to flow along the crevice between her buttocks and pool underneath her.She reached up to stroke the head of the boy, who still sleep soundly atop her. Her mind was a jumble of confused emotions. There was no doubt that the gift of the boy's seed was good, she told herself. How could it not be? Why should she feel such loss when he withdrew?And yet, the gift could so easily and drastically change the plans she'd made. She. "Oh, never mind..." Kim continued. "By the way, Kevin forgot his bookbag and astronomy books," she said, jerking her head toward the opposite end of the table. "I'll see him in class later today. Do you want me to take his stuff with me?" Sure," I replied, glancing up at the kitchen clock. "Damn, I've got a class at noon and I've got less than twenty minutes to get there." I looked down at my pink terrycloth robe. "I'm not even dressed yet!"I ran back to my bedroom and threw off my robe,.