Once my curiousity was satiated, I started to feel connected and set about making as homely as was possible. Outside down the first flight of stairs, ...he landing took a sharp turn right, then right again and down to the bathroom, which soon became apparent to me as each time I decended the stairs my landlord suddenly appeared a few flights further down looking up and asking if all was right with me. At the turn right there was a single bulb that illuminated the area, 60W dim and dull and my. ‘Well, I should get these old bones to bed. Work to do in the morning.’ I looked around and all the ghosts were telling me to stay, have another drink. The bottle was almost empty. It wouldn’t be right to leave an almost empty bottle just sitting. After a moment of thought, I agreed and filled my glass about halfway up. I looked up from my glass and there sat Mary, one of my childhood sweethearts. She looked just like she did those forty years ago. All curls and dimples. Such a shame she died. “Oh, shut up,” she said ever so casually. “What do you mean I shut up? Can’t you see that this is—” I was caught in mid sentence when she interrupted me. “Wrong? Cause you’re my brother? Joe, you never have been my brother. Sure we are blood, but are we family? You ran away when you were 18! I was 14 back then. My formative years! And I don’t have anyone else closer to my age but mom and dad! My classmates or friends, they’re nothing. I had no one to trust my secrets with, no one to ask about. Aahh ... aaahhhnnnggghhh!"Janie was barely conscious of her girl friend's cries as she rode her own climax to the end. After many powerful convulsions had swept the length of her body, she relaxed, a pleasant glow radiating from between her legs. The hairbrush handle slid in and out of her ass as Melanie mindlessly rode her own orgasm to the end. Then Janie turned her head and gazed through fogged eyes at her friend.Melanie had her eyes closed, a look of sheer pleasure stamped on her pretty.