I was hot, and tired, and just needed to get out of the house. And I couldn't, because what if the kids woke up? So..." She stopped there, leaned to t...e side and picked up an empty wine glass from the floor. "I poured a glass of wine, stole that box of jelly beans from the cupboard, and..." She leaned the other way then, and picked up a book. "I grabbed my novel from the bedroom and looked for somewhere cool to sit." In the bath." Yeah." It's a good thing I already knew you were insane when I. Yes, she was one of the two horny girls making sexual demands of Barry, much to her shame. If I were just a horny girl I might have an excuse, Lucy thought, but I'm a mature woman and Barry's mother."I'm going to take a shower," Lucy said finally."Oh, good," said Karen enthusiastically. "Then we can do some more female bonding." Barry told you to leave me alone. He made you promise." Lucy was beginning to feel panicky again. Barry wasn't home to provide some measure of protection."You really. Of course, the guys liked having both of her hands full. It made it easier for them to play. We somehow ended up hanging with some people we didn’t know from out of town who were all, I guessed, in their mid-twenties. Kelly had one guy behind her back and had moved in really close. Kelly was yapping away with one of the girls in their group. She was wearing a halter with some nice-sized C-cup boobs and a couple of the other guys kept pinching her nipples. They had their own game of pinching her. I barely spoke to Tara at the funeral. She’d only been seeing him for a couple of months, and I guess that she’d been having fun rather than tumbling into the arms of love’s young dream. Tara drifted away from the gang once Steve had died. She was Jo’s friend, really, though I’d always got on with her, making her laugh when I wasn’t being too serious for my own good. I occasionally heard about things she was up to, boyfriends she was seeing. I wished her well, and thought nothing more of it..