He followed her in, looking around and taking in the sights. It was, to his surprise, utterly normal. Fiona was anything but a normal girl, from her b...uncy, cheerful attitude that could not be smothered, no matter how dire things got, to the fact she was also a literal monster. The apartment reflected none of that. No, that wasn’t true. As his brain analyzed, it became clear the apartment was, in fact, very cheerful.It was a studio apartment, so it didn’t take long to take in everything. It was. We all went to the bathroom and we had a shower. I felt sad when all the evidence had been washed away.I laundered the towel and we then spent the rest of the afternoon naked by the pool. I took a bottle of champagne from the fridge and we shared it together as they had shared me. The boys were quite proud of what they had achieved with me and that they had both shared my first experience. We all sat around and talked about what we had done and how much fun it had been and that it had worked. "What's up Jay?" What's up what?" He looked at a spot just over her shoulder, andintently studied the band poster on the wall.She moved his eyes towards her. "Cut the shit Stepanik. What's goingon? Did you see your family?" He nodded. "Everything OK," she said,with genuine concern. He pursed his lips and let out a long breath."Come on Jay, just say it. It's not your mom, is it?"He let out another breath. "Nah, she's fine. It's Amber."Patty smiled. "What did she do this time? Bar. ’ Not yet, she had thought. But she had let herself become convinced, which wasn’t surprising. Her parents had often commented that she needed to be more assertive and less of a push-over. Her parents were always full of optimistic advice and wisdom, though lately Meghan had grown tired of hearing the same, tired remarks. She started to go to them less and less with her problems in the hopes that she would avoid one of their pre-recorded, fortune cookie pearls of wisdom. Of course, now she.