She was drinking agin and tonic and gave him a sip."Don't you tell daddy." Wendy kissed him quickly and then rubbed herlipstick off his rosy cheek."I... that hard what you are doing mom? You seem to have to have toreally concentrate when you put on your makeup?" Charles asked,innocently enough."It's something all girls learn to do as soon as they can; I could domy makeup by the time I was thirteen." Wendy grinned at him."Did your mother teach you?" Charles was interested.Wendy turned to him. Then she offered it to me for being her knight in shinning armor. I reminded her that she was grounded. Cathy said, “Not from school silly. We can do it in the band room during lunch if you want too. Of course I wanted too, she was pretty and popular. I couldn’t believe that she was still a virgin. So we made a date.My classes that morning really dragged. When lunch rolled around I headed straight to the band room. Cathy was there and so were two other girls. Cathy told me that they were there. I wasn’t sure what kind of bear this was, but it shared many characteristics of the bears I’d seen in Alaska. Shoot the things and they don’t realize they’re hurt, and even if you hit them with a killing shot, it still takes them a while to actually die. Which meant that the damned thing managed to actually get right up to me and run into me before it finally died.The only thing that saved me from being seriously hurt was that I was wearing a full set of power armor. If I’d been in just regular. This wasn't about me playing in front of a married man, and this sure wasn't about me getting laid. Awkward, semi-accidental teasing was the name of the game - and I had one last trick up my sleeve."Do you mind if I take a quick shower?" I said as I stood up and picked the toy off of the TV table. "And probably get this out of sight?" I can leave you in peace," Xander said. "I've bothered you enough already." Oh no, no, please stay," I said from inside my bedroom. "I don't want you sitting on.