Now that I am eighteen, he was different. I don't know if he knew that I realized it though. As I sat there in the passenger seat getting wet because ...addy was making me that way-- okay, maybe I was making myself wet instead with these thoughts-- I began to wonder, no, not really wonder, I knew the thoughts I was having were not right, but I could not help it. Then again, I was sure the thoughts Daddy had about me were not either. However, we both had needs. But before I acted upon those needs,. He was driving Gramma. She's seventy-something. She drives herself around town, but she doesn't like to drive on longer trips. Edward – Ed – he lives in the apartment across the alcove from hers. He had her for a teacher when he was in high school.Don't get me wrong – the first time I saw him, I didn't KNOW he was my knight in shining armor, but I sort of figured it out. I thought he was Gramma's boyfriend and he surely does NOT look Gramma's age, not by a long shot, so at first I was thinking,. ’ She sat up. ‘We will be all right, won’t we?’ ‘There’s more than enough to live on, I haven’t seen anything big enough to trouble us, I think we’ll be fine for as long as it takes.’ I stroked my chin, I hadn’t shaved in a week. ‘But I’ll have a look at the radio and the emergency beacon tomorrow and see if I can get them working.’ ‘No rush.’ She lay back down and resumed her gazing at the multitude of stars. ‘Fish is nearly ready.’ I said after a while, twisting around the stick they were. He worked in the Gulf of Mexico, and was home off work for two weeks at a time, then gone for two weeks at a time. When he was gone my mother would want me to sleep upstairs in the master bedroom with her. We would usually stay up late watching television shows like Unsolved Mysteries and Johnny Carson. The master bathroom was basically in an indentation in the middle of one side of the master bedroom. It contained the biggest bathtub I had ever seen before, and had mirrors everywhere like the.