’ ‘Why?’ Lydia said, and she stood up and faced me. ‘Do I have something to fear from you?’ The tone of her voice had changed. It was lower,...almost sexual. ‘N-no, not at all, but you can never tell,’ I said. She was staring at me again with that curious expression, and I turned away from her eyes. ‘You know, my dad hated it when I cut my hair like this,’ she said. ‘My mom and my sisters, they all have long hair. I had long hair my whole life. My dad said it was proper for a woman to have long. I did have a bit of a problem in getting the proper way of encoding the information, though. Since the accepted Fashion Wisdom is that vertical stripes make you thinner, I tried a variation on the supermarket bar coding at first. It worked well, with the earrings successfully translating the encoded message to my squadron of testers as I wandered around the mall. I had to abandon it after going to the grocery for a head of lettuce when the supermarket scanner flashed my weight on the checkout. He was inquisitive, and Jackie knew that he was also going through puberty, and his hormones were out of control. She caught him looking at a girlie magazine and jerking off. She thought he wanted her to see him. Jackie found it funny, and a bit turned on too. She noticed he had a huge cock for a teenager. Jackie had to keep it together because she hadn't had sex in a while.The older children were dancing and having a great time with their friends. Jackie planned on hanging out with her. She's not even talking much to Gwen and Robin about you, either. Whatever her feelings are, she's not saying."I sighed. "I see." You need to talk to her. Whatever happened with you and Amber, I'm guessing it has something to do with your feelings for Dawn?" It's ... complicated." It always is. But Dawn is a part of it, isn't she?" She is," I admitted."Of course. I don't think it's possible for you two to ever completely extricate yourselves from each other's lives, no matter how hard she seems.