I woke up in the morning to another hot sunny day I'd promised mother that we'd do some shopping down in the town,but on noticing that the neighbour w...s busy carrying bags of compost into his house this gave me an idea .I apologized to mother saying that I didn't feel up to going shopping and blamed it on yesterdays wine and sun ,but said that I would walk her to the bus stop where she would meet my elder sister who was coming with us. after making sure that they both had got on the bus I. "Something like your life, right?" I asked, meeting his eyes but not willing to betray Roger's final words.He nodded."I think your wife's a bitch, but taking care of Rachel and the twins isn't a bad future."He had not laughed that freely in a long time. We walked to the apartment building in the companionable silence of men raised in the image of the same father. He shook my hand before driving away.Iris was flipping through channels when I walked in. I tried to sit down, but she stopped. That is what I told them.Diane agreed with me and now the question was what to do with Tina.Tina said, "I'm sorry."I asked, "Tina, if you were raped and the next day the guy said 'I'm sorry, ' would that be enough for you?" She was having fun. She enjoyed it," Tina replied.Karen reached back and punched her right in the face. Karen, mild Karen, just cold cocked the little bitch. "That is what the guy that raped me said. I was saying 'stop stop.' He said that since he was enjoying it that I must. However, if you are okay with it then I’d like to take you to her little grove in a few weeks when she starts to sprout.”Kal’s mother stared at him, blinking repeatedly as she processed everything he just said.“Sprout? Are you joking?” she asked cautiously.Kal shook his head, “Not at all, you can ask Perra when she comes in since she was there for the birth. Admittedly, it was a little strange to see my first-born child as a large seed instead of a baby.”“Little?” his mother asked.“Perhaps.