She would put it back in a pony tail, what else? A quick dab of make up and she looked at the clock again. 3:50, she was going to make it. Brenda rin...ed off the ballgag and dried it with her bath towel. She scooped everything up off the floor. She threw the ruined clothes in the trash, tossed the shoes in the closet, and ran to her dresser. She stashed the ballgag and ankle cuffs in the back of her lingerie drawer and at the same time picked out a set of everyday bra and panties. Brenda. It was 8:00 am now and dad was in the living room watching telly as I passed by.“Morning dad,” I said to him smiling as I bent down to kiss him on the cheek.“Morning Em,” he replied promptly returning the kiss, without looking away from the screen.Mum was in the kitchen making breakfast. She didn’t notice me coming in as I sat down on the coffee table.“Morning mum,” I said as I poured myself a glass of orange juice.“Morning Em,” she said sweetly coming over giving me a quick kiss on the cheek. She opened the door and simply reached out and grabbed her clothes that were left in the hall and started walking down the hall. Kelly sighed and got off the floor and followed her down the hall dragging her clothes with her. She found Lilly sitting on her bed with her back facing the door. “Can I explain?” Kelly asked. “Nothing to explain, I’m just not pretty enough for you.” Lilly said keeping her back to the door. “Oh don’t even start with that.” Kelly walked over to the bed and sat down. With the phone still in my hand, I lighted a cigarette, from inside my bathroom, standing in front of the mirror, just like I did every night.I was a chain smoker since my days in college, and it has been a couple of years that I have been unsuccessfully trying to quit. I wanted to get rid of this bad habit of mine, but I never could. Maybe I shouldn’t be saying this so early into the story, but smoking never really found a place in my list of addictions.It was in-fact a very harmless weakness.