I had lost track of the time she had been gone. Waking up, I noticed she was smiling, and she said "Terry was down at the store. He pulled up right ...fter me and walked over to my car and looked in and said 'What you doin' with that little skirt on, Honey?'" Janet said she told him, "Oh, just thought you'd like it". Then she told me they talked for a few minutes, and she got her wine and came on home. This didn't surprise me, Terry was always flirting with her, even when I was around.What I. "That's a good thing, Helen," he told her."What do you mean it's a good thing?" she demanded."We were just in a plane that had a mechanical failure," he said. "What are the odds that it would happen to us twice in the same day? They're astronomical! That plane that's coming to get us is pretty much the safest goddamn flight in the world, statistically speaking." That does not comfort me," she said."It should," he said. "In fact, if you think about it, we're probably safe on commercial airliners. ...... Very tired, Grace March 29, 2009, Wow, today has been the most exciting in a while. Brian came back, I missed him so much. We got up early this morning ate breakfast, showered and headed down to the pond. Before we left I decided not to wear a swim suit, I wanted to skinny dip and I wanted to show my brother my completely naked body. I just threw on a pair of cotton shorts and a tank top, grabbed a towel, then walked across the hall and told my dad what our plans were. Dad was still. And the rest of their day was far from the spring-like romance it had been before. They had driven back to the city in near silence, speaking only as necessary, and then only in monosyllabic utterances, her with an uncomfortable wetness between her legs that soaked her panties and threatened to stain through her dress. And Phillip with that bulging hardness under his trousers that she could see so clearly in the light from the automobile dash gauges.And now this! How could she reconcile all.