We both laughed again. I repeated the process on the first box, taking off the ribbon, then the tape, and then found another box inside. He busted out...laughing at the look on my face. I gave him a very fake scowl that barely covered my smile. Once again, the ribbon, the wrapping then a plain box that could be opened. It’s my pendent necklace. He’d brought back my necklace. I looked at him then give him a big hug. ‘Well, are you going to do the other one? I bring them from Ohio by covered wagon. Deep down we are afraid other people would shun us if they knew the truth. We had to get them to think differently about us. We had to share some small secrets and see how they react. We never did let Jennifer in on it. To this day she thinks she had an affair with us both separately and that’s the end of it. Did I mention she later became Tommy’s uptight bitch of a wife? Alison and Nick might run away, but we had to try. We had to try to get them in bed with us. The fantasies were just too. “Maybe you should drive yourself in,” Mom said. “You have that nice car your father bought you. Shame you’re not using it.”“Oh,” I said, my stomach growing tense.She nodded her head. “Yes, yes, you should be driving around in that car, not wasting your summer in my law office.” She gave me a motherly smile while her voice sounded ... strained. “Meet some girls.”“I don’t mind,” I said. “There’s time for girls when I get out of law school.”“There won’t be,” she said, shaking your head. “You’re. With her superior analytic skills, however, this seldom happened. She could very well defend herself, and her life, if this ever became necessary.She was like a diamond among pebbles here, and her beauty did not escape anyone who saw her. She always garnered the full attention of any male there, and she savored this exclusive attention rabidly. She was thirty years old, and yet could have passed for mid twenties, and her golden, shoulder length hair framed her dark, haunting eyes. Her mascara.