’ A boulder of concern immediately sank into Charlie’s stomach. While ‘it’ might already be over, that didn’t mean it couldn’t be the ele...hant in the room in front of his family. Awkward, party of one! ‘I was thinking about staying home this year,’ she said quietly as she dug a pair of socks out of her dresser drawer. She moved to the bed, sitting next to him, but refusing to actually look his way. ‘Excuse me?’ Nathan closed the laptop and sat up on the bed. He worked his way over to the. Walking on a flat and hard surface was quite a change from walking on the soft sand on which they had been traveling for the last several days. Even though they were in total darkness much of the time, they seemed to be covering a lot more distance in the same length of time. Of course he no longer had to carry Verla on his back now, but she still held on to his shoulder most of the time so as to take some of the weight off her healing leg.By Vincent's watch, they had been walking in the tunnel. She walked slowlyto her bedroom, her hips swinging sensuously, her silk clad legsswishing softly against each other. She paused to twirl once and a winkat herself in front of her full length mirror. She dropped the shoppingbags on her bed and walked into the large walk in closet. The closet wasevery girls dream, full of racks of gorgeous feminine clothing and rowsof shoes of every imaginable style and color. A dresser to one side heldneat rows of makeup implements.She gazed over a rack of. "I'm not into women." "Neither am I," Tracy shot back. "We wouldn't have to do anything we weren't comfortable with. We'd be totally in control. But guys will go nuts for even just two girls in the same room together because they think something might happen. Like I said, they're dumb." Sara just frowned at her friend. "Okay, listen. You don't have to do anything now except have a shower, and put on this dress. Then we'll go over to your place, pick up some of your things, and come back.