”“As long as I’m with you, I’ll do most anything you want.” That got me kissed. I grinned. “Do that some more and I ‘will’ do anything...you want.”She smiled. “I just might.” I drove us to the local Walmart. Inside, she led me to the pharmacy area where she picked up some headache remedy pills and band aids. She said, “That’s all I needed.” We went over to the registers, paid, and left. Once in the truck, we rode toward the apartment. Once there, she said, “Come inside. I don’t want you to leave. ”“It’s okay if you don’t want to tell me, I just… well, with the way my relationship with the girls is… I guess I just thought,” I said.“J.J. sweetie, it’s really fine, I mean, you’ve seen your mom and I being affectionate with each other, so we just kind of thought you had put two and two together, and just didn’t care. Okay, so your mom and I have been best friends and lovers since high school. Your dad, well, that’s been more recent. He has always known about Kat and me, he would. Bell's house ... after I got out of the hospital ... when Millie and Sandra took turns staying with me ... as I got my strength back ... after the fiasco at the Springfield Airport."All Sandra told you was that she lost her concentration, and I fell in the shower. The truth is that she climbed in the shower, pushed me against the shower wall, and backed her furry friend onto Mr. Johnson. When I came, she pushed back too hard and knocked me down, causing me to hit my head and scaring us both. Why don’t you stay here and be my protector?” as a job helps a boy feel needed. At a time like this, a boy needs to be with someone.Stretched out on the fronds beside each other, they talked of what they might build for fortifications. Not that they’d find them of much use if the Japs found them, but boys like to talk about forts, and as they did so, she found herself turning his way and him, hers, until they were again holding each other.In the end, though, she gave him another kiss, turned.