Sleep in my bed, have sex with me, all the normal things." I, I, I just don't know what to say." Just say, 'yes, ' Dottie. You did like our first cour...e, right?" Well, I guess I couldn't help it, it had been an awfully long time since I'd had a man. I'm only human, after all. But, to sleep in your bed and all the rest, that's just, oh, I don't know."He stood up and took my hand. "Come on, I'll give you some more convincing," and he led me down the hall to their bedroom. I knew what was coming. .. and he was... subconsciously making her know that this was it... him... the very myth that had brought her and Steve to Crescent Valley! Ex-Except that he was no myth! He lived! And he was savagely hovering right above her... above her nakedly vulnerable loins... !God, she had never been a coward... a stupid person, or whimpering female, not in all of her twenty-three years... but this... this was unbelievable! She tried to think... ! To scream would be futile! There was no one to help her;. ”“What did you say, Sis?”“I asked about the embargos and the unbalanced naval treaty, and about the US citizens fighting for China with backing from the US government, and she got all flustered. You?”“The Tariff of Abominations, the Nullification Crisis, and State’s Rights. All of which were before ‘Free Soil’ and abolition became major issues.”“What did your teacher say?” I asked.“That all of it, one hundred percent, was a pretext for protecting slavery, and that saying anything but freeing. We both knew that I’d have to leave in a couple of minutes, and that fact spurred our kissing harder and faster. Knowing that we couldn’t get “too far” before I had to go added some serious enthusiasm. My newfound eagerness gave Bobby a little courage, and his hand found its way to my breast. For the first time ever, I didn’t push it away.I knew that I was going to have to get busy with my plan. Daddy really hated it if Allie and I weren’t at the pickup spot when he got there. So I pushed Bobby.