She had strolled deep into the woods after leaving the Jordans' cabin, and it seemed like another world out here. Pure and clean and fresh, with the s...ngs of birds and crickets filling the afternoon and the scent of the clean air and the pine trees causing her senses to tingle pleasantly.She sank down onto a fallen log with a sigh and looked for a long while into space, seeing nothing. But it wasn't another world. It was the same world. The same world here in the woods as back there at Sunny. She smiled and acted as if I had done it intentionally. Like I was inviting her. “So nice to feel skin against skin, isn’t it?” she said, as she rubbed her leg against my bare thigh. Openly, blatantly, in front of her husband and Melanie. Joel just smiled. I could see that Melanie’s eyes were getting wider. Where was this going? I didn’t know what to do. Do I embarrass Camille by moving away? Or worse, tell her to stop? And my penis was stirring. Not a full erection, but it began to. I know somebody been watching me sleep or as come in my room i never leave the door open. I walk over to the door mmm nobody there then i close it and start geting ready for school i took my shirt off and felt something different about my stummic i look down it was green like leafs i keep thinking could this be that plant monster i found that seem to vanish inside of me later it seem to fade away my mom called me to her room she said i found wemons clothing in your room whos are they i told her. We can't keep her down if she wants to rise like the morning sun." Franklin's strength hid trepidation. "We need to encourage her. She's still fragile and could break. We don't want her to be like us. We want her to be a worldly woman so she can make her way." Franklin picked up the newspaper focusing on a front page article.Marjorie refused to let her husband have the final word. Franklin knew exactly when to throw in the towel, raise the white flag, call a truce. After thirty years of.