" What do you think, Sue," Dave called after his sister as she paused in the hall outside her bedroom."I agree with you guys," she answered, "this gam... sounds like a lot of fun, especially if we have more cunts for you guys to guess from. But let's see what everyone else thinks tomorrow."With another lustful smile on her face Susan opened her bedroom door and stepped quickly into the room so she could close the door behind her and cut off the giggles and groans from the livingroom as her. Jeri nodded, pleased in spite of herself."Time?"Eliot said, "Three thirty-five." Faye didn't call to ask about me, did she?" Her p-dac had standing orders not to interrupt Jeri while she was working, not for anything less than imminent depressurization."No calls," the moon-eyed robot replied."Bitches're probably too drunk to miss me," she said, tossing a leftover piece of patch into the mouth of the scrap truck. "Lucky bitches. Shit." She was getting wasteful, throwing away patch like that,. With dad out of townworking, mom was going a little nuts from boredom. Imean, not nuts, but she was always hugging us andkissing us a lot more than normal and I even saw hergrab Rick’s ass when she didn’t know I was in the roomand when she saw looking she turned kind of pink withembarrassment and laugh it off. I knew Rick was always around mom after dad had gone outof town on business – he didn’t even hang with hisbuddies as much, and I was starting to think he maybe. "I'm leaving now anyway. This would give me a polite excuse."She agreed. In truth, it was what she wanted in the first place. She already knew nothing would come of it. He was a flower, albet it a subtler one than most. But a flower nonetheless and flowers pollinate flowers. Not leaves. It had been fun to imagine that he had even a passing interest in her but that dream would fade soon like so many others.They left the house oblivious to the whispers of friends who saw the whistful looks in.