"I then made up my mind to ask her the big question. I now knew that it would be impossible for me to sleep that night if I didn't know if she and Unc...e Charles had slept together."Tell me mother, did he ever sleep with you?"It took her a good ten seconds before she softly whispered her answer."Yes."Disappointment and emptiness took hold of me. It felt as if someone had cheated me of something very precious to me, but I could exactly say exactly why I felt that way.Mother had always presented a. Well we came home to find our substitute sitter, Mrs. Lawson is out of town and this one came highly recommended so we hired her.She’s a sophomore in college and so we thought why not, she had plenty of references and believe me Jasmine checked them all out.When we came home Mary Beth had found the liquor cabinet and opened it somehow because it locks and had gotten a bottle of Grey Goose Vodka and was hitting it with shots straight from the bottle.Jasmine was furious and Mary Beth was pleading. I felt like Tamara's girlfriend, and sort ofimagined I was. At the very least, I was under her protection and itfelt good.When we got back to the restaurant where we'd started the evening inwhat seemed like months ago now, everyone said their goodbyes. It wasclose to midnight, when the magical night of Halloween would turn intothe essentially meaningless first day of November, and we'd accomplishedabout all we could downtown."Hardcore Halloween, dude," Michelle said. "I wanna party with. When I mentioned the Karate class he said he'd always wanted to learn it but football would get in the way. When I explained Sensei Timmons' exception for sports his interest increased and he decided to stop in and talk to the Sensei about joining us.I was going to hang out a while but was practically given the bums' rush by my brother and Joyce. I was a bit hurt by the treatment until I got to my place.A delicious smell hit us in the face when I opened my door. When I got to the kitchen the.