"Oh thanks, nice for you to compliment it for a change," she replied.Her hair was a rich auburn and shoulder length, this time round. It hadrecently b...en black, with brightly coloured highlights. Paul had calledher the "Bride of Frankenstein" as a result."Oh that colour suits you," said Laura when she entered the kitchen."Thanks, I thought I'd better go for something simple being as my lastdo got panned by that monster of a little brother of mine," she said,sitting down."Well, it was a little. “They have muscles,” I whispered to Rosita. “They’re getting stronger.”Becky pushed the other girls aside and looked down at me. Then she looked up at Sean, and then back down to me. “Megan,” she said calmly, “did he hit you?”“Get back to your dorm,” Sean barked. “It’s after hours.Becky ignored him and brushed my hair from my face. “Did he give you a bwack eye?” she said.I nodded, and Becky’s face turned scarlet as a scowl spread across her lips. “Get back to your dorm and mind your own. “I don’t think you understand, Melissa.You don’t know much about boys and men yet.They have some strange ways about them.Strange things that they like to do to girls.It happened when I was a girl, and I am afraid that it will happen to you with Uncle Bill.”“I don’t know what you mean Momma, what type of strange things?”Melissa was perplexed.“Uncle Bill is going to punish you every Friday after dinner.That is the tradition in this family.When I was growing up, my Uncle did the same to me.There. She watched Dub fiddle with the skillet and coffee pot. She felt like she should say something, but had no idea what that should be, and stayed silent.Dub got up and went to inspect the deer carcass, hanging from the rope. Apparently all was well, because he returned to the fire without doing anything other than looking at it."Soon as we get fifteen or twenty fish, we can head back," he said. His voice was curiously void of emotion. She tried to convince herself that was normal. He was only.