Through bad marriages and abusive boyfriends; through the first tentative explorations of their 'other side'; and now through this."Never leave your s...de." Shannon whispered as she caressed Molly's hair. A single tear fell to splash on the bridge of the other woman's nose, but she paid it no notice. Shannon swallowed.Her love was gone. Now she must follow. It was their pact.Weak, Shannon slumped backwards into the chair behind her. Silence hung in the room as if Molly's spirit waited, holding. "So you were peeping at us like a perv?" A perv? Me? Damn it, Sean, you almost hit me with that first condom you threw into the woods!"I looked at him, not sure I heard him correctly. Just the image that conjured up in my mind was enough to make me bust out laughing. Jake looked at me as if I was crazy. Then he must have realized how funny it all was, because he just started laughing with me, until finally we were both sitting on the ground, our arms around each other's shoulders like the best. Say. A word.’ She told herself. And she didn’t. She simply stood there, nodded once, then looked at the ground. Inside she was screaming from the awkwardness of the whole situation. This was not what she planned. She wasn’t ready to see him yet. He was always so dam— ‘Are you not gonna talk to me?’ he asked softly. ‘Or are you still mad about that whole sit—’ ‘I told you before that I was over that. We don’t need to bring it up again!’ Cadens raised voice was like a snap of electricity in the. The thought of what she was about to do made her feel a bit saucy. When Dave returned Tim picked up his pool cue and leaned over the first shot. Just then Barb stepped up to the side of the table, with her thighs just touching the edge, and leaned over slightly to watch him shoot. Tim paused for a moment, then lined up the shot and started to draw his arm back. He found it difficult to concentrate on the shot when out the corner of his eye he could clearly see Barb’s smoothly shaven.