Neil clammed up and refusedto talk about it. Junior told her sharply to drop it getting bothMichael and Sarah concerned that there was something amiss... Faithblurted out that Neil would talk with them later but not at that timeto which both parents swore to get the truth from them.After a round of showers to clean off the salt water and sand the boysspent the rest of the afternoon in the yard. The girls went to visitKylie and baby Willie Jr. with Faith being dragged along. The parentsset up the. “First of all they aren’t ‘bitches’, but they’ll be here soon,” Haley replied. She was looking at a text from Madison on her cell phone. Madison said that she and Natalie were ‘pulling into the court now’. Haley quickly made her way back out of the house to greet her friends. “So what are we doing, man,” Josh asked, “and are these chicks hot?” “I’ve only met her friend Madison,” Mark replied, “but she’s pretty good looking, and she’s chill.” Josh was hardly paying attention. He was too busy. I felt overwhelmed like never before. This couldn’t be real. Wake up, Will, I told myself, this is all a bad dream. Just fucking wake up!When I was able to feel the weight of that moment crashing in, some minutes later, I dropped to my knees and looked at the floor. The one clear thought I had was of Arianna. Oh, God ... She’s going to die! My own death never really registered. Only my daughter’s. I was crushed by the understanding. The whole universe would be mourning her loss.My phone was in. Rape became a relative term because I always came in her. Lucy had not changed at all in her dealings with me and I had started to wonder if she even remembered the Christmas party. How could she have forgotten the bashing I had dealt to her love canal?Paul was gay and had finally come around to admitting it. At least to himself he would admit it. Paul occasionally still sucked me off but he had begun exploring the gay world and I sensed he was now saving himself for someone who returned his.