Uncle Steve was sitting in one of the two black leather lazy boys chairs that adorned our living room. It was hot that day and because we were in the ...iddle of a late July heat wave it was one of those less cloths the better days. Once daddy and I started messing around he always liked seeing me in shorts and a tank top, sure enough it was one of those days.I knew that mom and Uncle Steve had been making out I heard them while I was in my room getting dressed. And it was as I thought because. ”He put his left arm around her and kissed her. “I had some things to attend to. Sharon I’m going back the day after tomorrow.” She started to protest, but he held her. “Darling, please understand, they are my men. We’re a family, in fact we are closer than family since we each hold the others’ lives in our hands. I can’t let them go out without me being there for them.”She pulled away and sat on the couch, tears appearing in her eyes. “When you collapsed onto the road I thought he had killed. ” She swallowed, started to look around, and quickly realized that, just as at the bus shelter, she wouldn’t be able to see anything through the rain-drenched plastic. She unbuckled her coat and quickly shrugged it off and handed it to me, then stood with her arms folded over her breasts, shivering in just her green panties and red boots. “Panties.” Her eyes went wide, but she had been expecting it. She quickly lowered them and stepped carefully out of them, the rubber boots making her. And I’ll call Meredith BEFORE I go to San Diego and Jasmine BEFORE I go to Los Angeles.”“So you’re doing what Michelle demanded?” Kara asked with an arched eyebrow.“No. I’m doing what I need to do for me. And for us. And remember, Michelle’s ‘no dalliances’ was simply a step on the path to pure monogamy. With her. Something that could never happen. I daresay that is not what Maria Cristina has in mind.”“No, of course not. But you do need to be careful. Girls have a way of falling in love with.