“I love you Mom.” He wished he could hide from her but said, “If you think it’ll help, tell me.” How can it possibly help?“I can remember ...im doing things to me when I was five,” she said, “touching me between my legs,” she shrugged then grimaced, “I guess I liked what he was doing, so he must have been doing it for a while. Anyway Charles, it went on ... almost on a daily basis.”She told how for the longest time she wasn’t allowed to play with other children. And when she went to junior high. And there was no hurry as we both removed my clothes.There were candles in the bedroom too. Sitting on the side of the bed, we kissed again."I feel happiness inside me, Philip. It's filling me up so full it's stretching my skin. And everywhere you touch me I feel it ten times more." Lie down," I said. "I want to touch you all over."She twisted on the bed and sank down on her back, her hands clasped above her head, making her whole body available to me. I gently unclasped her hands and laid them. ‘Absolutely, sir…if anything I’ve done was….’ ‘Last week, Falderbrook comes to me and says, ‘Ay boss, that new kid Vladamir…he’s a spending a lot of time with your girl….sittin’ on her desk, crackin’ jokes…makin’ her smile and laugh….” He let his eyes roll and gestured in a manner totally unlike Falderbrook. He continued, narrowing his eyes and clamping my head in his complete attention. ”…and I think one of the boys saw him givin’ her a peck on the cheek.’ I said nothing. I couldn’t. My throat. " Not here," Teri said, inspection complete."Not important," Alan said. "Or, at least it can wait. Everyone! We're moving again! Same as before, leave nothing and no one behind!"They were on a beach.Not just a beach, but a stream cutting through that beach, its fresh water running into what Brenda assumed was an ocean. It had that salty smell."This is more like it," Jeanie said. "Water, fresh seafood." We'll have to be careful," Teri said. "We don't want to overfish it." True." Do we camp.