?’ ‘Shhh,’ Kelly huffed dismissively, raising a palette of foundation to match shades against Stephanie’s pale skin. ‘So you’re telling me...guys aren’t hitting on you like, all the time?’ ‘N-no. I’m not around them o-often and when I am, well, sometimes they say things.’ Stephanie protested, ‘But it’s more like they’re.. like they’re making fun of me.’ ‘So you’ve somehow totally misread obvious signals your whole life?’ Kelly asked incredulously, abruptly removing Stephanie’s glasses and. Elizabeth grabbed Danielle's bare arm and let go after two seconds. The weird feeling came over Elizabeth again but by now she was used to it. "Who do you think you are?" Elizabeth asked."Lizzie," came the reply."What?" Suddenly Elizabeth was unsure of herself."I'm Lizzie." A big smile appeared on Danielle's face."I thought you were called Danielle?" I'm not she is." Given the look of sheer confusion on Elizabeth's face, Lizzie tried to clarify. "Let me explain. You know when you touch someone. Well to make a long story short I didn’t win the game. However, I went down to the main floor and managed to win my two hundred dollars back before the end of the big game. The kid that won was really on a lucky streak because he had never played that good before.Saturday evening after the twenty-four hours were up he came out of my sister’s bedroom smiling and bragging about what a stud he was.He hadn’t told me the truth either. According to Margaret he fucked her because she had the biggest. He isn’t in the best of health but he doesn’t show any signs of slowing down.No, you didn’t read that wrong. There is a 34 year age gap between my parents. My parents married late in my dad’s life. He was in his early 50s and my mom was a freshman in college. Since my dad was a professor and I was born about 7 months after they got married, it’s pretty obvious how that happened.I grew up an only child in a wonderful home. My parents fought. A lot. But everyone’s parents fought. They stuck.