‘They said they’d show me theirs if I showed them mine.’‘…they’d show you theirs?’ she nodded slowly. ‘We’re not talking about panti...s here, are we?’I shook my head reluctantly.‘I want you to use big girl words and tell me exactly what you wanted to see.’I mumbled my answer, and her voice, if anything, grew sterner. ‘Look me in the eye and tell me exactly what you wanted to see.’I slowly raised my head and, looking her directly in the eye, whispered, ‘A penis.’Nodding, she said, ‘You know. 36-12-32."The streetlights flickered on and off, perhaps another omen. Melinda regretted that she had worn only her thin dress, but she enjoyed the stares she got from the boys as they stared at her breasts, proud and full. She knew the teenagers fantasized about her as they flirted with her when buying their tickets. A warm coat hung in her front closet and she thought of it each time a cold shiver ran down her back. The leaves, sounding like a carousel of applause, anxiously rustled alongside. “In the past people worked from sun-up to sun-down, that made for long days in summer but very short ones in winter. With the invention of electric light more than the clock, people started living disconnected from the natural order of things.” Rachel certainly felt disconnected; nothing in her life seemed real these days. As she walked home with her friend Tammy, they talking about vampires and the vivid dream Rachel had. Her friend know a lot, having been hooked by mainstream vamp-fiction a. He asked me to suck it for himDid you i askedno way she laughedShe had also told me about her mum's naughty drawShe had found 2vibrators and used them on her self and how much better it was the just fingersWe had our showers and went up to her room I asked her if I could see the vibrators as I had never seen oneShe disappeared and returned with them both and a packet of baby wipesShe wiped one and passed it to me this ivory coloured vibrator, twist it at the bottom she saidI twisted the bottom.