A flurry of squeaks permeated the air; he heard the rapid movements, just as the girl must have felt them inside her. Now that the box's exit could be...reached, the rats, having been starved for weeks, dashed one-by-one through the newly available pathway towards the irresistible scent of sustenance. Rats were dumb animals, the man thought. When the exit to the tube had been on the top of the box, the rats could have been able to stack onto each other and escape, but they were too desperate to. "Don't you think you should maybe have a talk with her?" I could, I suppose. See what she's up to, what she has in mind."That was pretty much our discussion as we went on to other things and, really, I'd mostly forgotten it until a few days later when she brought it up after supper."I talked to Suzi about her flirting with you. Do you want to know what she said?"Well, what guy wouldn't I thought and told her I did."Well, it seems that you have quite an admirer, David. My daughter wants to have. It was bad enough that my mouth tasted like a rat had pooped in it and my head would explode at any moment.“Oh, this is good. Hang on, I have to get Brook,” Cassidy said, and she bolted for the door.“Uhm ... did we... ?” I asked.“No. You did get naked and showed me that you could do the helicopter,” she said, and a vague memory pushed its way forward.“I ... uh ... I ... uh ... sorry,” I stammered.“Then you announced that you were the Master of the Universe and all your subjects should bow to. . it had indeed been a while since I'd seen mom wearing her so called, "comfy clothes."For mom, that usually meant, and in this case certainly did ... no bra. Usually a wife-beater tee shirt, which she had on now, and which looked painted on truth, be told. She had naturally full "C" cup breasts at least, and at 46 years of age, she still looked damn fine, a hell of a lot better than most women her age. She'd kept herself physically fit, almost daily working out in the downstairs exercise room.