” I smacked my hands together and the girls jolted awake. Monique and Emily both rose up and tried to fight off the sleep that still held them. They...hopped to their knees on the bed pushing the disheveled locks of hair out of their eyes and knelt on all fours, their eyes locked on me. Lisa peered up at me through the frame of her cage, kneeling on the ground like a dog, her palms flat on the floor.“Breakfast time.” I opened the door to Lisa's enclosure, her body was stiff as she crawled out and. Peter smiled and said to the zebra “Well then, there you are. You are white with black stripes.”The zebra asked St. Peter “How do you know that for certain?”“Because” said St. Peter “If you were black with white stripes, God would have said “You is what you is...”For three years, the young attorney had been taking his vacations at this country inn. The previous year he’d finally managed to close the deal with the innkeeper’s daughter.Looking forward to an exciting few days, he dragged his. There couldn't have been five thousand people here. I expected it to be a ghost town by now." How about the train?" David asked."There'd been an avalanche that destroyed a huge section of track. A million tons of cliff wiped out the bridge. The state said it was a local problem. There wasn't a tax base big enough to pay for repair. The narrow gauge was going to have to close."David explained, "It's running now ... it's a favorite scenic tour. What happened?" David continued, "I took a drive. Max pointed downstairs, signalling that he wanted me to get ready. I unbuttoned my jeans and slid them sexily down my thighs and off my legs. Or at least I imagined it was a sexy move. I had lost a lot of weight so my baggy jeans plummeted to the floor instead of wiggling off my hips. I unhooked my bra and took it off from under my t-shirt. It too fell to the ground.I held my arms above my head, stretching my body out. A grin spread across my face. "I'm ready." I swung a leg over Max's lap so I.