” I quickly jumped into the closet in the workout room and closed the slotted bifold doors of the closet. My mom was wearing a very skimpy Mrs. clau...e outfit and she was leading two of my neighbors, Rick and Bill, by their hands into the workout room. She turned on the lights and sat down onto the workout bench. The way she was positioned, she was facing me in the closet and Rick and Bill were standing to her left and right, beside her. As she sat down she parted her legs and I quickly noticed. Hernando said, "No, Patron." All right," I nodded. "You can finish your talk with Consuela on the way to Medical. I have classes to teach. And Hernando -- you can be a bull, or you can be a steer, understand? Right now, you're still a bull..." Yes, Patron." One look at the expression on his face said he got it. Consuela did, too. It was a good jab and it hit the mark."Go," I told them. "Spend the time to get a good start on things. I'll contact Medical and make sure they understand. I'll see. His hands reaching out as he grabbed my foot in his grasp, pulling my leg so I was faced towards him. Rubbing the base of my foot, relieving the stress. "You're not a no purpose bit on the side," clearing his throat he shook his head. "Well I feel it," biting onto the side of my cheek I kicked my other foot out, leaning it against the other. "You're not seen like that here," his smile was easy, unforced. "I know," I smiled sheepishly. "I know you don't see me like that." I lifted my foot up and. A lot of water had flowed under the bridge since her twenty-first birthday party here nine years before, and on reflection, a lot of it had been polluted water -- but now that she was turning thirty, it seemed to be finally clearing up. On a night that it would have been easy to let herself get morose about the past few years, a few friends reminded her that, well, she had a few friends, but that was worth a lot.A few days later she broke down and traded in the Olds Cutlass Ciera she'd been.