I felt a knot in my throat when I pulled the ancient paper grocery bag out as I recalled what else was in there.Somewhere in the scraps of wallpaper w...s the very first centerfold Tim and I had ever seen. Tim had found it folded up in a library book, and to an eleven year old, it was like finding a gold coin in your pocket of change.Also inside the bag was the Barbie doll Tim and I had stolen from the girl down the street because it had looked a lot like the girl in the centerfold. I remembered. He was carrying my mom's drunk body in his arms. He positioned her gently on the bed, then turned around. The camera was so close, I could see the goosebumps on the back of my mom's neck and she rolled over drunkenly and sat up."Jon, Jon, Jon," she slurred, and he sat down next to her on the bed."Yes beautiful?" he said to her, placing one of his big hands onto her hip."I'm hungry," she told him in her high pitched voice."You ate so much at the party," he said, scooting closer."I'm just. I am off limits to all but Aleem. I wonder if this rule will be obeyed as I can see one of Aleem’s cousins, Faruk, has been rather friendly in appropriate conversation, but I can feel his gaze upon me even when he is in the company of the other girls. The harem consists of one large room, extavagently decorated in a gold, cream and royal purple theme – there are cushioned floor pillows along the open walls in the center of the back wall of the room is a very large bed with gold sheer curtains. Tom stepped into the shower, leading Alice back under the water before pulling the door shut behind them both. The shower was hot, almost too hot with both of their body temperatures spiking, but that didn’t stop either of them. Pressing Alice against the cool tile of the wall, Tom placed his back under the stream of water and blocked it from hitting Alice directly except for the drops that bounced off of his body. Pinning her wrists gently against the wall, arms locked at her sides, Tom.