The midwife was someone who Heather had arranged to attend the birth. Shewas supposedly a friend of Heather's whose total discretion could beassured, ...ut Cynthia secretly worried that another person would know thesecret of the birth, or rather the lack of a birth.Just as she was loudly faking another contraction the door opened up andan elderly woman entered with a medical bag."Fetch me hot water and towels!" she yelled at the staff who were hoveringaround the door, eager to hear news of the. While we talked a lot, we still knew relatively little about each other. I knew he’d been married once, and that it ended badly for him. After ten years, he still felt the hurt. Several times he has told me I’m the best thing that has ever happened to him. I knew he had a daughter by an older woman when he was in high school, but he seldom saw her. She was also older than I by a handful of years. I knew about his parents and sister. I knew more about him than he knew of me. All he knew was that. “We all thought you were pretty dope with the way things went down at the beach.”“Why thank you. That’s a compliment I think. Adam, I was a teenager once myself and I’m not as naive as you teenagers think us old folks are. I drank a few beers and kissed a few boys when I was your age.”“Hey, that’s cool. We are planning on having another party this Friday night” Adam looked around to check if anyone was still in the classroom and lowered his voice. “What I wanted to ask is if you could get us a. Jenny stood, her arms folded under her breasts, one foot turned outward as she leaned most of her weight on the other leg. “Well, do you think you can drag yourself up to the bathroom? A hot bath will make you feel a lot better.”“Yes ma’am” said a dejected Bobby. He felt muscles screaming that, before today, he didn’t even know he had. His self-image, that of a strong young man who could take anything, had taken, among other things ... a beating.His aunt followed him to the bathroom, and.