He helps me out of my gown, the cloth dances along my heighten skin, sending a burning fire through me that begs for only him. The candles flicker in...the darkened room, the light of them dancing against our bodies, and creating the perfect atmosphere. I lean up to kiss him, my hands cupping his face as he grinds gently against me. Our tongues dance for a brief moment, before I suck his into mine. Charlie lets out a low groan, melting into my touch. I gently push him back, so he lies down flat.. " Yes it is a bit embarrassing. I'll be finishing in a minute I justneed to run the razor over my legs." Don't shave this morning. The laser treatment works better with a daysgrowth. I thought we could start there this evening and next weekend doyour beard." You want me to permanently remove my hair?" Yes I do and so do you, so stop pretending. I know you. You must havebeen thinking about it for a while or you would not have said anything.Same with the tattoo and the tits. I know that you. I figured I could at least get you and Brenda a little time alone.”Brenda screamed, “No! No! No!” Crying, she buried her face in John’s chest. John was glad the wrapping had come off his arm and shoulder earlier in the week, as he could now hold her close to him. He was trying to give her comfort that, right now, he really didn’t have.“Deke, I appreciate that. Does Mary Beth know?”“Not yet. The rest of the gang will meet me at the hospital where we’ll tell her. I just pray it doesn’t kill. “And this one is the day you were born.”“Dada?” Nicholas said, touching the picture.“Yes, that’s your dada,” I confirmed. “But he’s gone.”“He still looks for Nick,” Bethany said. “I have no idea how to explain it to a one-year-old.”“Given that I don’t understand it, that’s not much of a surprise,” I said. “I accept it, but I don’t understand it.”“It’s worse for him, though,” Bethany said quietly, “since the idea of ‘gone forever’ isn’t something a little one can understand. He was only six.