“You haven’t shaved recently.” I hear his voice for the first time. “I miss your smoothness.”I can barely hold back my tears. “I didn’t ...hink you were coming back. I thought you were gone. I didn’t see a reason to…” I can’t finish my sentence, and instead suck in an enormous, gasping breath, for at that moment he runs his middle finger right through the canal of my sex. Speech is gone completely. Rational thought itself is hanging by a thread.Ben is not done. He plays lightly with my lips,. .. sexy," I played my tongue across my bottom lip."Sexy?" Karen laughed lightly. "I'm sorta new to this whole mixer meeting people thing, remember?" Me too," I nodded. "But I know guys like it when girls kiss." Kiss?" Her blue eyes got a little bigger and I knew she wanted to push those cute little glasses up her nose. "You've been watching too many Girls Gone Wild videos, Kylie." You don't think so?" I asked her and I wasn't totally clear on what I was doing or why, but I was pretending pretty. I came close, twice, to calling it quits though as I got to know Kenny, I really did begin to like him very much, even began to see myself in the role of stepmother, of all things.I had my image of me as a mother when I was growing up but, like most, it was of me cradling a small baby in my arms, not driving a teenaged boy that I was genetically-unrelated to soccer practice. So, there were adjustments beyond all the normal ones that come about when two people decide to be together.Now, I. Other than her outrage about my job, what do you think of her?”Sammi sighed and I knew what was coming. She didn’t want to say anything bad. “I’m sure she’s only worried that you’re spreading yourself thin or getting involved in more than you can handle.”“Is that what you really think?” I asked. “You can be absolutely honest with me.”She glanced at me with a frown. “I don’t know her well enough to say anything,” she said.I shrugged. “Just give me your impressions of her.”Sammi shook her head..