. " a young brunette girl poised to ask a question."But nothing Simone," Nikki spoke firmly, "some of you may think you know about such things already..."A murmer ran round the class. I bet they do, I thought to myself. There was no way that a group of lovely young girls like this had not had encounters with boys."Well, you may, " continued Nikki, "but today we are going to study and examine and I have a male here that we are going to look at."Nikki called me through. I was naked of course and I. . why?Becky came from the wagon with the bacon her mother had asked her to get. She smiled at the soldier. Bella felt silly standing there with a slab of bacon in her hand, so she handed it to AJ."Matilda, darling, add this to the stew." She realized her mistake when his callused hand came up to accept the greasy meat.The sergeant leaned forward, peering in the firelight. Only the fact that AJ was so young let his hand appear as other than starkly male."It's a shame your daughters have to work. I received a little hug and a kiss on the cheek, after which she led me into a very large room where Franklin was watching Jeopardy! on a big-screen television.Alex Trebek had never looked better -- or bigger.Body language from Franklin gave me to know that he didn't really want to talk during the program, so I simply accepted a cold brew from Juniper, settled next to Franklin on the couch, and watched the show.Franklin hollered out almost all the answers -- putting them into the form of. She quickly went into the bedroom andshut and locked the bedroom door. Being dark in the bedroom aftershe shut the door, I could not see what she was doing.She came out through the French doors onto the deck motioning me tothe chaise lounge. "Are you ready to show me?"Anxiously, I replied "Yes, if you're sure that's what you want."She took my hand and led me to the chaise lounge. As she straddledthe lounge and started to sit down, she deftly pulled the full skirtof her dress up above her waist..