Then she said how about I fix a picnic basket with some stuff and a cooler of Kool Aid, you can go to the pond. I said hey how bout while you and the ...irls get that ready Doug and I will go put up the canopy at the pond. So Doug and I went to the pond, got the canopy out of the shed, put it in the row boat, we rowed out and then set the canopy up on the floating deck. PopPop had rigged it with holes and little straps to keep it from blowing off or getting knocked off. It was going to be a. " He waited to see what theirresponse would be."What do you have in mind?" said Telnor, eldest of the group. Theothers, having deferred for his question, now waited for Raven'sresponse."I propose a card game," said Raven, "with high stakes." He smiledgrimly at the others. "We can all have anything that we want and aretired of it. It is time to play a game which will change all of that.The game will be poker, and the stakes will be a piece of our lives. Wewill bind ourselves so that the results. "Look, Mels, I'm sorry this happened. To you. To us." I sighed again."You think it's easy for Carrie? She's lost over thirty years of herlife? She was robbed of a chance to grow up and mature naturally." As Ispoke, my own anger began to rise in opposition of Melanie's. "She'sonly fifteen years old and is going to die of goddamn old age decadesbefore her time. Just thinking about that breaks my heart."I picked up the towel from the floor, wrapping it around my still-damphair. "And let's not. Part of the issue is basically because she is a larger girl. Not like gigantic, just more of that plus size gal. I know some guys aren't into that obviously, but I've always liked more woman than less. And from the first time I saw her, I knew I wanted her. She stands about 5'4 with long dark brown hair. Her eyes are also brown, which tend to have a come-hither smolder to them when she is turned on.Her large pouty lips often puff out also when she is excited, adding to the overall sultry look..