"Well there's not much I can do about it today, the old...Mrs. Carey has gone away for the day," dad sighed, "but I'll certainly be having words with ...er when she gets back." Did you really believe I'd been having sex on the doorstep?" I asked him."Lord no." dad laughed, "I know you too well to believe that. Behind the hedge maybe or even up the side alley, but not on the doorstep, too big a risk that either your mother or I would open the door and catch you."His reply made me laugh, but he was. My father had been called as a summer evangelist at a resort town along the Maryland coast for the entire summer. We packed up and moved our summer clothes, the dog, and ourselves to a small cottage a block from the ocean beaches. We would walk along the boardwalk and my parents would seethe over the bathing costumes of the men and women basking on the beaches. This girl in a thong bikini, that girl topless, that mother with her pregnancy obvious to everyone in the two-piece suit. I wore. She turned around and hurried back through the double doors.“Baby?” Bobby was confused.Mirriam seemed to see him for the first time and fell against him, crying.It turned out her tears were ones of relief, but it took three or four minutes for Bobby to calm her down enough to get the information out of her.Betty had suffered what the doctor had said was a detached placenta, which was causing the bleeding. They’d examined her right on the gurney and the doctor had ordered them to take her. Both him and Michael had had a crush on Lisa for a while now, but especially since she turned sixteen and began to dress and act sexier. When they discovered her new side business to save for college, they only lusted after her more, but up until there new time of sexual desperation, neither of them wanted to risk their friendship with her by either asking her out, or by asking to pay her for her services.”Okay then, let’s do this. Look, here she comes, man. Just act normal, ok?” Michael.