" I'm sorry, Mr. Burkett, I like to play basketball, but I don't want to run the risk of injuring my hands." Did you know I played basketball against ...our Uncle Clifford back when I was in High School?" the Principal said, trying another tack."Yeah, Uncle Cliff mentioned that to me a while back. He said during a game against Greentown High, he fell down and was skidding along the floor. You come over and picked him up, dusted him off, and asked him if he was okay."Principal Burkett nodded and. "Did she test it out tonight?"I blushed. I knew that tone of voice. It was the tone that said she knew I'd been up to something and there was no denying it. So I didn't. Mom and I were pretty open. She knew I'd had sex with Mia, so there was no reason to hide anything."Yeah. She set it up and tested it out." Did it work?"I blushed again, but grinned wickedly. "Oh, yeah," I drawled.Her face pinked up like mine. Then she gave me a look that was ... well, odd. The look vanished almost as quickly. Boy, what a sight she was, as she elegantly glided down along the corridor and walked into the living room. I gave out a wolf whistle, and saw Mom blush a little. ‘Your old lady doesn’t scrub up too bad, does she?’ Mom said whilst moving into the classic model’s pose of hands on hips and one foot in front of the other.I had to admit, she was absolutely stunning. Mom is thirty-nine but has the figure of a girl ten years younger. It was just as well in that dress she was wearing. It was full. “Why now, after all this time? I mean, I think about Grandma a lot. Why did it take so long for me to cry?” “I don’t know, Em.” He kissed my nose and traced his finger along the side of my cheek. “But I do know that chiseled in the ancient, stone tablets of Rome, it says a hot bath can cure anything. Why don’t you try it while I fix us something to eat?” “The stone tablets of Rome?” “Okay, so maybe it was one of your Cosmopolitan magazines where I read that.” Paul was forever finding ways to.