After a few minutes I said to Marci, "Watch this" and I yelled over at Calvin, "Slap the whores face" I ordered him. Calvin had placed his hands on Jo...'s head and was helping him while he sucked his cock, looked up and over at me and then down at Joe, "Suck that fuckin' cock you fuckin' piece of shit" he said as he slapped hard at Joe's cheeks, "Oh" I heard Marci cry out. "You like that baby?" I asked her, "You like watching your man slap my whore?" I then asked "It's so..." Was all she could. Mom is whitewashing my father's behaviour. For your benefit or mine. I don't know." What is this whitewashing that you are talking about?" Janet fired back."My father abandoned us. He walked away. He went looking for a job and never came back. He was taken? By whom? Aliens?" It hurt him to leave us. It hurt him to walk away. I know it did. I thought you would know that." Why would I know that?" Dana responded."Because you know how much he loved you." He didn't love me. He wasn't responsible. I took a cue from Julia, and I wondered about MY objective for the event. That took about a nanosecond to decide, so I spent the rest of the walk to the car thinking about how good it was going to be. My minds agreed on, "Very, very good." I was reminded of something that I'd been curious about recently, but it was better to wait until we were inside the car before discussing it.As soon as we were in the car, Julia reminded, "Don't forget we have to pick up Donna." I haven't forgotten. Speaking. Following the string with my gaze as it forms a taut line to the horizon, thrumming slightly in the wind. My sweater is disappearing before my eyes… I am alarmed to feel the cold air on my bare belly, but can only watch, dumfounded, as all of my careful stitches are unmade, and the woven pictures become a meaningless multicolored string being pulled into the sky. Beneath my wonder, I can feel the panic easing as I realize that the rain has stopped – and, although the sky is still dark in places.