’ My fingers ran up and down her back, digging here and there and holding us tight together. ‘We can stay like this a little longer, can’t we?�... ‘I hope so. I am falling asleep on your warm chest.’ And we did lie there, dozing, until the sun moved and the coolness of the shade roused us. Much of the picnic was left, but we weren’t hungry and packed it up to take back to the Inn. I helped her into the briefs, with some tissue stuffed in to catch the mess. She giggled, ‘This is terrible, my mother. " teased Roxy, knowing how topush his buttons."Seriously Paul," his mother warned him, "You have to chill out a bit,and learn to live a little. From what I just heard, you're in for a lotof fun in the next couple of weeks, and during the course there are goingto be times when you're going to have to swallow your pride and take whatthey dish out. My best advice would be, whatever they ended up puttingyou through, just take it all in stride, and don't let harmless teasingget to you. If you react. His strong hand rubbed my neck gently, and I hummed."He will come around, you know." Alistair kept kneading the tense muscles in my neck. I dropped my head, giving him better access."I know. And he will like Nate, I'm sure, after a while. It's hard for me to see it from his perspective. They may technically have been my parents, but they didn't raise me. It doesn't hit me the same way."We sat quietly for a few more minutes, when it occurred to me I had a question for someone else. I looked up. Then, the temperature changed suddenly and I was not expecting that. She shifted closer in towards me, pressing up against me with her knees, “do you remember when we stayed at yours that weekend, he got pissed and went up before me”? Not being sure where this was leading, I just answered a tentative yes but letting her continue the conversation. Well do you remember how your wife went up shortly after leaving just us two downstairs. Again, I just said “yes”; “well”, she continued, If I.