"Wait, is Beth a lesbian?" Karen asked."Duh. The bigger shock is that Loren is probably trans," Cindy said."Yeah, I got that. Hadn't heard about Beth ...et." I'm right here!" Beth reminded them in a bemused voice."Sorry," they both said.***I stopped by to check in on Jenna. She was dabbing at some bloodunderneath her lip and her face appeared to be about half shaven."Goddamn, how much blood is in a lip?" She muttered."You doing okay?" I asked."Kinda. You have any tips on shaving your face? I just. "Gerry ran Isobel back to Pitsbury. She said she would be in touch once she had fixed a date for him to meet Arthur Corsellis but that would be at least ten days with him being abroad again."Nice girl," thought Gerry as he drove home. "Pretty too but am I really so out of proportion that she noticed the length of my legs or is she particularly observant?" He gave a mental shrug and thought no more of her.Isobel's thoughts were much the same. "I enjoyed that," she said to herself. "He's easy to. They spoke very quietly as they thought I was asleep, I could not see much but could make it out that they were kissing and touching and really getting into it. I could see him getting her undressed and he wanted her her to suck him. She did that but it wasnt enough, he pulled off all her clothes and started licking her, the tent was filled with the smell of her juices it was amazing. All this inches from my face as I pretended to be asleep in my sleeping bag. After a while he got her on her. "This was the unkindness cut of all. And Julie didn't even like baked beans! "I thought you loved me!" I was just pretending that, too. Sorry, nothing personal, I'm sure you can't help being the low life pond scum you are."Soon, she was packed and drove out of his life.Bashful felt like the world had come to an end. What had happened to his loving, and sweet and supportive wife? Were they the victims of sinister forces?The door bell rang. It was his beloved mother. Bashful had never been .