Although Vic was a year younger that his sister, he nevertheless felt that he was worldlier and that his older sister was a complete innocent. He'd ha...e to talk to her.That night, the family was in the living room. Vic's mom and dad were on the couch watching television. Vic was on the easy chair doing his homework, and Ginny was on the floor doing hers. Vic's mind couldn't concentrate on his work. He kept thinking of his conversation with Joey, and his eyes kept straying to his sister. He. Meanwhile, the Sunnis had their own issues. While most of them simply wanted to be left alone, they also hated the Shiites. Some of them hated Saddam Hussein, now hiding in the Sunni Triangle, and some supported him. Al Qaeda, from Afghanistan, had a bunch of locals representing them, all sorts of foreign nut jobs tended to infiltrate in so they could add their two cents, and then you had something calling itself the Islamic State out there. Intelligence reported over two dozen distinct groups,. I picked the tawse up from the table andgazed at it for a minute. I tried to tell myself that I was behaving in themost foolish way and to just throw it in the bin and tell Tim that I was theadult here and I did as I pleased. That was all well and good but I was halfway up the stairs and with my head shaking from side to side and my mindscreaming a silent ?NO? I knocked on his door. He opened it and his face lit up with anenormous smile, my hands were held out holding the tawse flat like some. She collapsed on top of me and I held her as she rested her head on my chestand I ran my hands over her back as our combined liquids seeped out of her. Werested that way for a short while, and she slowly rolled off of me. She playfully nudged me and told me to turn over, because she wanted to give me a backmassage.That sounded good to me, so I turned over and stuck a pillow under my chest and she straddled me, and started to work my muscles around my shoulders. Shecarefully kneaded each set.