"I know. How does that make you feel?" Scared. Excited. It makes me feel all buzzy here." She pointed at her abdomen."That's your uterus, telling you ...t wants to breed." What?" She sounded dazed."That's your body, getting excited about having sex." But we're not going to have sex," she said."Your body doesn't know that." I smiled.We had already broken through what I'll call "the pelvic barrier." But she'd been in the heat of the moment then. Now I went about things more clinically.Once she was. ”“So, what time do we need to leave tomorrow night?”“This one’s actually close by. It should only take about 25 minutes or so to get there. I figure if we leave by 5:15PM, we’ll be early enough.”“OK. Go get changed. Your grandmother and I are taking you to dinner.”“Alright.”“Make it quick.”I got cleaned up and made my way back down to the kitchen. Grandfather and Mom were talking. It seemed Grandfather still wasn’t happy about last night and was letting her know it. He wasn’t absolving JJ but. It was 2:30 AM when I knocked on their door, thinking I must be completely out of my mind. The whole idea had gotten me messed up, I hadn’t been laid all week, either. Marti answered the door, smiled. ‘Oh, good! You did come.’ She stepped aside to let me in. ‘Karen! Honey! Dan is here!’ ‘OK. I will be right out.’ I heard Karen’s voice from the other room. Karen came out wearing a white bathrobe pulled up snugly around her. She smiled. ‘Ready?’ she asked pointedly. I wasn’t but I was thinking. He was clearly checking Jole out earlier. I felt his foot shift against mine and looked down again. It was just a foot. Stop thinking about it."Hmm," Luke finally mumbled. "I guess so."He turned his attention to me, and I found myself going uncharacteristically tense as Luke suddenly reached down and picked an olive that had dropped on my thigh off my leg and tossed it aside before going back to his own food as if it didn't mean anything. Because it didn't mean anything. So why the hell was I.