And she doesn't take crap from people." She shouldn't have to take crap. Susan's a good girl."Tina sighed. "Yeah, and you know, I feel like I'm kind o... her anchor. Ever since that disaster of a party, we just sort of hang together and complement each other. And then we added Cindy."I laughed. "And Kathy herded the whole bunch of you?" I dunno about 'herded'. She acted like one of us. Really nice, having a mom who CARES about her daughter. Well, daughters. Really nice." She leaned against me. "I. The window was closed from the inside, so he had to force it open. Taking care that no one sees it, he entered the room and quickly located the naked girl.Making sure no one saw it, he tidied up the classroom, leaving everything as it was, and then woke the girl up.When she opened her eyes, she looked sleepily at Lucas for a while. Seconds passed, but she just stood silently, staring into space. In a low voice, Lucas instructed.“Soon, a locksmith will come to open the door. Make yourself. The wine and the two bottles of water I drank had gotten to me and I needed to pee. I went into the house and found the downstairs guest bathroom occupied and I had been holding in my urge to urinate and needed to pee badly. I knew the house well, having been over there many times, and knew Julia would not mind if I used the master bathroom in her and her husband’s bedroom.I lifted the hem of my dress, pulled down my panties, and sat down and peed. Yes, I sit down when I pee. After I was. Roger faced this fact only in moments of complete abandon and breakdown, such as now. Yet even at such moments, he did not suspect that his own lack of experience was the reason he could not excite his wife, the reason, ultimately, why she was each day building more and more of her life separate from him.Cynthia was even separating herself from their children, from Ellen and Louise. She was trying to escape from reality, though in a way different from Roger's. She had just begun a part-time job.