” She said. All the time? The now-familiar full sensation returned to me. Even though it was uncomfortable I was getting used to it.It was about 30 ...inutes since I applied the cream, it had dried. Sheena told me to take a shower, and shave my face (I had no facial hair anyway) and call her once I am done. She also asked me to use a body lotion kept on the shelves. I first shaved and then got under the shower.“You have 15 minutes,” she said before leaving. (Unsurprisingly) Whatever little body. Sitting down to the meal, we were with a few couples we knew which made it more fun and a guy on his own - being a sociable bunch we all got chatting to him. Turns out Phil was 10 years younger than us, and his girlfriend had left him to go travelling a few months after they got engaged. We all commiserated him, the old lines like, what will be will be, plenty more fish etc. Carrie's eyes lit up at this point and gave me a wicked smile. I knew what the look meant and just mouthed 'Love you'.As. "Really? You don't want to have a drink with me?" asked Joan, her lovely eyes clearly disappointed. "What are you going to do, sit and watch TV? Come on," she said, "lets enjoy this place, before we fly back to reality."It was a good argument, and I fell for it.Joan took me, by cab, to a shabby old cocktail lounge about 4 miles away. "One of the other girls told me about it," she said. When we got there, the throb of dance music could be heard out on the sidewalk. A sign on the door advertised. "It's so sad," she moaned, fingering the copy that had the only photograph of our mother we knew to exist. It must have been taken from her High School yearbook, because she looked much too young to have had three children. Her smiling face didn't look all that familiar to any of us."But I'm so HAPPY!" she yipped, jumping up out of her chair and hugging me from the side. Her breasts pressed into my shoulder and I felt a little guilty because it felt so good."Hey," she said into my ear. "If this.