“Yeah, it’s kind of hard not to anymore.”She suddenly moves very close to me, and I feel the lightest touch of her lips on mine; before she pull... away, laughing and even dancing through the flowers.My lips tingle from where she’d barely kissed me, and I bring my hand up to touch the spot. I chase after her as best as I can, my crutch slowing me down.I finally reach her, as she is lying under the shade of a weeping willow.“Isn’t it always grand to come home after a long time away?” she asks me. It is your choice to be with me. Now relax. I am only in the other room, and any time after your conversation with them, you can come back to me. Do you understand?”“Yes, Master.”“Are you OK?”“Yes, Master”I let her go and stood up. She rubbed her body against my leg again. I looked down at her and calmly said, “That is enough, Emily. I’m leaving now, but I will be in the other room. Now do as you were told and I will see you in a bit.”I looked at the strippers and said, “Grow the fuck up. You. You’ve been really distracted the past week, and I think it’s getting worse.”I sighed, “You’re right, but I don’t know what to do about it, really. I can’t make the problems my sister and my friend are having go away.”“No, you can’t, but if you don’t get your head clear, your grades are going to slip, and THEN where will you be?”“He’s right,” Jason said. “Having a B or two for me won’t mess up my chances for a good job in a research lab or getting into a Master’s program. For you? It could be. That's being taken care of in several ways. But I need for you to take us up on the vacation. As I mentioned before, when you took Jill in, she overheard you and your wife talking about the vacation the two of you had been planning all your married lives. Heck, you don't even need a passport to go to Hawaii, unless you continue on to a foreign country from there. You tell me where else, and we'll take you there in that same luxury jet. It belongs to Frank, but he's already said it is available.