" When they dried off later and the teen was blowing the hair dryer over his wet hair, Julie still had not sustained enough of her kind warm soapy sm...lling brother's affections. "Please Stuie, come to my room and lie with me in my bed for awhile. I need you to cuddle with me before we start the day." The brother was going to firmly decline, but thought the better of it. "Not for more than another 20 minutes." Once stretched out naked together in each others's arms in the almost juvenile. The girls came back to their seats, and the manager and models started running around getting their show ready for us.The model whose figure was closest to Clarice went first. She walked up the front row, stood in front of Clarice and twirled. Clarice said, “I don’t like Teddies.” The manager made a note. The model went back to change.The model with a figure like Monica walked up to the front. She was wearing a sheer black baby doll nightie. The material was so sheer she might as well have been. Time to change tactics. ***** His face fell. “You’re going to abandon me? When I need you most?” The deep tone of his voice, so soft, made goose bumps rise on her arms. “You’re hardly alone, Gabriel.” His lips pressed together, green eyes full of hurt and disappointment. “Mike has his hands full with Erica and her condition. Ariel is a manic depressive, drunk most of the day, asleep the rest. Rafe? I don’t want Rafe here with his shit. Who does that leave? My eighty-nine-year-old. Finally I was allowed to change out of my work clothes and put on blue jeans and a sweater. I scanned the news on the internet and logged on to my favorite story board, but all too soon Lilly called me down for dinner. There, I saw Ronnie for the first time that evening, and she gave me a beaming smile."This'll make you proud, Papa! I'll get a special citation for my research project. They sent it out to some big wig professor and he gave it a great big thumbs-up!"I was elated of course. Ronnie.