"Don't be, Cindy. You have your voice. It's great." She'd sung a couple songs when we shared that evening, me, her, Stoney, Dan. "And you and Dan, you...sing together like you're in love."Giggle. "That's because we ARE in love." How's that work? I mean, you and Dan, you're more than twenty years apart." You and Stoney are ten years apart," she countered. "Age isn't a problem for US. Other people have a problem with it. And me being fourteen when we married. So many people thought that I was being. ." Are you okay?" I asked, concerned over how startled she looked."I'm fine, I just need a quick bathroom break...uh...women's issues..."Thinking fast, I replied, "How about we just use those bushes down the hill for our bathroom this time? It looks like the most private spot around this place." Okay...uh...gather up some branches for us to make a fire and promise me you won't look in my direction," she said, almost in a state of panic."Sure, of course," I replied"I'll be right back..."As soon. "You're no freakier than the rest of this family."I suddenly had another overwhelming urge to kiss him and if Mary-Beth hadn't called out my name and come running up, I would have plastered him."I got a secrud to tell you," she said. Her giggles reached her blue eyes.Running my hand over her short yellow curls, I knelt down so that she could whisper in my ear and I could talk into hers. After I gave her my answer, she pulled me by the hand and Bob followed with a complaint that women were. Are you still OK with this?”“More than okay. I was hoping we could have a big party — except you won’t be able to drink.”“Will you be ready?”“I could show off now, but one more week won’t hurt.”“So you plan some kind of orgy?”Candy said nothing for a minute. “I’m not sure,” she said. “Would it be crazy to ask Mistress if she could lay something on? I’m tempted but I don’t want to upset Andy. I know he’ll say yes, and one of these days I want to have him there when I’m being Candy, but I’m not.