The other four girls too had also noted a major change in Kat's 'character' since she'd stayed with Trey for two weeks earlier in the summer. She was ...ore confident and outgoing, she just seemed more 'alive'.They didn't know exactly what it was, but they wanted to be more like Trey and Kat themselves. When Kat had been speaking with them about the pool party and sleepover earlier this week, she had told them that if they really wanted to 'grow up', to gain the kind of joyful love of life that. Laughs and snickers greeted her answer. The girls thought it funny, the way she said milk. A man could not be milked, not in the usual sense, but he could still be milked in other ways. They already knew. They had seen it demonstrated in previous lessons.All except Jason laughed. Might they actually use it? Could they even want it demonstrated? It wouldn't be the first time. Never before with a machine, of course, but they had seen him do it. There was no way he could get out of doing it, not. ’ He talked about his long day, the trip to the emergency room that lasted for hours, the drive home with Sandy in the back of the car, moaning the entire way. ‘I’m sorry, sweetie,’ his mom said at last. ‘We’ll find other things to do to make it up to you. I don’t have any court dates this week. I can take a few days off.’ ‘Want to watch me beat you at Mario Kart right now?’ he asked, grinning with a humor he didn’t actually feel. ‘Tonight’s my night, kid. Do your worst.’ They played. He knew that Kate was meant to arrive last night, about the same time that Sarah had, but he couldn’t remember hearing her come in. Had they been so distracted that they hadn’t noticed? He couldn’t remember hearing any noises to say that someone was there and surely, despite everything, they would have noticed the sound of her car, the flash of headlights in the window, the sounds of the door opening and closing…something? Creeping quietly down the cabin’s eastern hallway, Tom entered the main.