I was soglad to be in the closet watching him do this to himself. His entire bodyhad turned red and he was beating faster. I remember Pete telling me ...hat itwould usually take him a minute or two to Jack off. But not my dad, i hadnoticed that it had been a while and he was still working on his erection.But i didn't care. In fact, i never wanted it to end. I was learning so muchtechniques from my dad. I remember at one point he got so tensed that he hadto stop what he was doing for a bout 20. Actually for a year and ten days, but who was counting? But I must confess that I didn't think of my humanness as I grew twitchy!" A year? But why? I mean, if you didn't have to... "I shrugged. I didn't know what to say."Character building?" she asked with a gentle smile."Whatdaya' think? Did it work?She starred at me with an appraising look and said, "I suspect you already had lots of character. Were you in jail?"I glanced at her, ready to protest and then felt silly when I saw her smile and. Margot shorter than her andeyes timid. Eyes that glared up from a down bent face. She kept her hands in her pockets and barely spoke. In fact Ixchel didn’t even know that Margot had a pierced tongue until they first kissed. And then it was time to get up. Ixchel walked down a side street. She felt almost calm. She wondered if this was the way that it was supposed to be. It must be, otherwise how was it that Margot always found her? But then Ixchel thought about the bruises and cuts that Margot. .. Why don't you take this cab, I'll get the next one."She'd been interrupted mid-hunt, and was still struggling to regain her focus. However, not for nothing had she once—long ago—been known as the cleverest woman in Venice. This could actually be an amazing opportunity.Staring winsomely up at him from under her eyelashes, now dripping with rain, she asked: "Well, where are you going? Maybe we can share?" He named an address a good ways uptown. It didn't actually matter *where* he was going..