”“Specifically, you just killed someone I’ve been growing to know. More generally, you kill; I save.”“Okay, and yet you said you’d meet me...as a lover. Are you going to walk away from that, or are you going to meet me with strength and vulnerability?”That was the question. If I was going to meet her as a lover, I needed to figure out some way to approach her. It was more complex than I had described. I brought Mane to her. I recognized that he’d gotten more of what he wished for from Lucinda. Understanding immediately, several of the other men did the same. Luke’s buddy, John said, ‘well, it was your Mom so you give the first licks. Leave some for us!’ Doubling his belt, with the buckle in his hand, Luke swung the belt over his head and brought it down hard on Brian’s ass, right across the plumpest part. Instantly a white stripe appeared that quickly turned very red and swelled into a welt. His buddies cheered and John said, ‘that was a good one, stopping there?’ ‘Not hardly,’. He hadn’t said much and no one faulted him for protecting his sister. When Kyle showed up at the hospital word spread around quickly even reaching the local news about what happened and that was probably all the more reason that both parents wanted to remove their kids from the spotlight so desperately. In the two weeks since the incident happened, everyone was extremely nice to Autumn at school, and she even developed a clique at school when people realized how cool she can be once you talk to. Then Craig told Miri to tell him what happened in the cave. To Jack’s shock and dismay, she did. “Well it really was an accident when my top came off. So I went down to look for it and...well a minute later I looked up and Jack was jerking the biggest hard-on I’ve ever seen”. “What, a, he has a big one ay? So Jack you exposed yourself to my wife and were wacking off under water? OK, I can see that.” Jack was perplexed. He couldn’t tell if everything was alright or whether Craig was going to.