Andy looked at her and said slowly, "I sure don't ... But from the sound of it, you do ... Or at least, you think you do. What did happen?" Darling An...y," Kathy said with the warmest smile Andy had ever seen, "it's you! Sister, you were absolutely honest. If you had made that meal you would have thrown it out. On the other hand, the restaurant probably was very proud of what they served. Why the difference in perception? Because, big sister, you are now one of the finest chefs in the world!. Oh god. What had I done?He looked up startled and said “You can’t be serious.”I looked at the floor, wondering how I’d so catastrophically ruined my friendship, and was about to tell him to forget about it, and that I was joking. I'd never done anything like this before. I wasn't gay, was I? Then he took a step closer to me, and I looked up and saw the beginnings of a shy smile on his face.“Are you?” he whispered.“Am I what?” I murmured back to him.“Serious?” he replied, stepping closer to me. ‘I couldn’t just leave you,’ Béla said, trying to lighten Beth’s forever somber mood, ‘you never showed me how to blow up those little rods inside my tits…’Beth actually laughed. “That was sooo long ago!” Suddenly moving with more animation than was recently usual for her, Beth sat up. She stopped, paying attention to how her body felt, enjoying a youthful flexibility that she hadn’t experienced for a thousand years.“Do you need to feed again?” Béla asked. Beth shook her head, ‘No,’ although. "Teach him the basics, let him know how to bow in and how to behave in line, stuff like that." Ous, sensei Sparrow." Nicole responded like a soldier, before bowing. She then started to walk off to a corner and motioned for me to follow."Do I get to call you Nicky?" I asked Nicole, grinning."Fuck off." Nicole responded playfully, grinning back. That was enough of a 'no' for me!The rest of the class went by eventlessly, with Nicole explaining to me the basics of karate, with a lot of manners,.