After a long while, the tears stopped and I remained where I was, feeling very empty inside.I didn't hear Nollie come up behind me, so the first inkli...g of her presence was her hands on my shoulders."I'm sorry," she said softly as she rubbed my neck.I twisted away from her touch and screamed, "You should be! You should be ashamed, too!"She held both hands up with the palms facing me and asked, "Do you want to hear the whole story?" Yeah, why not?" I yelled, "I might as well!"I leaned back. .” That would make them giggle and run off, only to try again later. Melissa would just shake her head. That didn’t stop her from teasing me either, so apparently teasing Alex was a game her whole family could play.To try to burn off some of their excess energy, and I think at least in Melissa’s case, to keep them from “innocently” deciding to share our bed at night, we used Cargo Bay 3 as an impromptu obstacle course and command training for Erene and Daniella. We didn’t let them handle live. That and a fight with my Dad, although not before I begged some money from him, having to practically shove my birth certificate in his face to convince him, the tight asshole. I bought a coach trip to Montreal, where I had family on my mom’s side. Here again, I was treated as if I was one of the ten great plagues, and so eventually found myself back in Ottawa. With a big smile and a few juicy horror stories, I got myself into mom’s good books, although Kevin was now just cool towards me and. On one occasion I took a pair of black leather office pumps to work and stuck my feet in without checking and had to work all day with my stocking-clad foot smeared in a sticky-white mess.So we decided to keep an eye out for anyone abusing our footwear.One day after work I was laying down on the sofa watching some Korean soap and still wearing the office uniform (a modest knee-length skirt, blouse, and dark stockings) when Rob, our black jock football-player roommate came in. I had a suspicion.