They were veiled by a haze of lingering sleep."Morning, little sweetheart," she whispered, holding on to the body, fearing the girl might jump and run... She might want to leave forever after how Angique made her suffer the day before. But Alicia didn't."Mistress," was all she whispered, before snuggling her body closer into Angique's.Sleep reclaimed them for another two hours, and when Angique awoke next, the bed beside her was empty. Her roving hand found nothing but a cooling stretch of. He was mad at his cousin for telling on him, and swore he would get her back, someday. He made that same promise about all 3 of them. He would teach THEM to make fun of him.His Mom still went around the house in the thin dressing gown, all the time, but, ever since that day, he had hated to see her naked body. THEN, one day one of his friends had been at the house to play some games. His Mom hadn't known that he was there, and walked in wearing the thin gown, and nothing else. The friend had. Flailing and squeaking, she struggled onto dry groundand for a while just lay there gasping. Then, not really wanting to know howbadly her plan had gone awry, she looked behind her. For a moment, she couldn'tbe sure what she was seeing. Then she let out a triumphant yell. "It worked!" shecrowed. "It worked!" Indeed! All six were now screaming and thrashing and trying to pull themselvesfree of the sticky mess in which they were snared. "Six at one blow! Sixat one blow!" Minnaloushe shouted. Then. In some societies, a public announcement in your community or village, was all it took to be married. In my mind, they were now my wives. According to Joyce, all of the X's wanted to be my wives as wellKitty Carstairs was the first of the X's mothers to reach me. She wrapped me up in a warm hug, and then she thanked me. I thought it both strange and comforting that she would thank me.Georgia was next. She kissed me on the cheek, perfunctorily, before making straight for Brenda.Shirley's mom was.