" She yelled at me.I took the garment from here and reluctantly stepped into it. I wasappalled at how silly it looked and as I pulled it up around myw...ist, I saw that it only came down to 5 inches above my knees sothat I would be showing most of my legs in the glossy white tights --this was becoming awful. The waist was elasticized and there was arow of tiny buttons around the top.Cathy knelt down in front of me and started tying up a belt oforange ribbon which lay under the white lace fringe. " I shifted my weight. I wanted it to happen soon, very soon! But how do you say that to this handsome 18-year-old boy? "As soon as you can get the guys back together again, I guess." Well," Will seemed uncertain for a moment, but then brightened. "The guys are all out of town this weekend camping. I was pissed 'cause I couldn't go. Bet you can guess what they're up to, and you and I get left out," he winked conspiratorially. "But I bet we can work something out for next week. Of course, if. He smiled and followed me inside, untying my top on the way.It was seven-thirty when we got dressed again and emerged to prepare some supper. Not that it took much. You just boil some water on the little backpacking stove, pour it into the package of freeze dried food and wait ten minutes.We had a small campfire and sat before it, talking (and necking) until nearly midnight. When we finally moved to the tent and slipped into the joined sleeping bags, the thought filled my head that this seemed. ”As she spoke, he indecent granddaughter crossed the room and spoke quietly to her grandmother for a few seconds.The change was miraculous. Her grandmother’s face changed from the twisted caricature of hate into a placidly peaceful landscape of love and hope in the blink of an eye. Her eyes had a faraway look in them and a tear formed in the corner of her right eye. She had just been shown a glimpse of a world of which she was unaware--a world in which love was the law, rather than an optional.