They preferred to believe in the miracles of our own lord Matty. The Low Friars basked in reflected glory as well, it was known that all my healing an... wisdom was learned from them.One of my first enactments as the new Earl was to sponsor a copy smithing of all the hundreds of manuscripts the Low Friars had amassed as well as the few others to be found. It was slightly impious to neglect copying and illuminating the Good Book, but with the unmentionable transgression of my brother who’s name is. Or maybe I actually sensed someone watching. But when I opened my eyes and shifted my gaze from the TV screen to the patio, I almost died of humiliation. A shirtless Skip was standing in the open door, his eyes focused intently on my crotch. My expression must have been priceless, a combination of horror and embarrassment. Instinctively, as the blood rushed to my face, I clamped my legs together in panic. When Skip saw my legs snap close, his face broke into a smile. I was trying to scream,. Andy and I had watched tons of horror movies, and there was only a rare instance that I would get caught by a jump scare. Once those jump scares did start, Leslie had reacted with jerk motions in her seat. It didn’t take long for Matt to put his arm around her and she leaned against him. I was unphased by any of the scares even though the movie was good. Skylar looked over at me slightly each time a scare came up, likely checking to see if I was jumpy. With Matt and Leslie all snuggled up, I. Brad came back eventually, and plopped down. He said, "It's not so much physical exercise, it's the mental sparring that uses up what little intellect I have." The others in the room broke up laughing.Brad was up early and out the door to chauffeur the teens to school and to get to his own job. Promptly at four, the trio arrived back at the house and repeated for the most part the day before. This time the teens were more adaptive to the welcome rituals and even hammed it up with some of the.