"Gazing at me quizzically she muttered, "Cindy?"I chuckled. "You know?" Hell, it's obvious isn't it?" Well it is to me, but Jas seems oblivious." No, ...he knows and I think she feels the same way but she is worriedabout being in the band and what happens if they fall out. She lovesthis band." Yeah I get that, but she hasn't worried about being with you." Yeah well I guess that's because I'm not part of it, I'm just ahanger on." Bullshit you're as much part of the band as the rest of us, you. But, the gauntlet had been thrown down and picked up. A response was required. Kerry said, “Deal.”Jim unfastened the front of his cutoffs, unzipped, and let them drop to the floor. His cock popped straight up, a staff of gristle that bobbed a little in time to Jim’s pulse. Karen and Kerry stared at the white skin where his shorts and swimsuit had protected him from the sun’s tanning rays, and they also stared at his equipment, so obviously aroused, so obviously manlike. They were both getting. I felt confident I could outrun them, they were too big and not sober and my body was in the running groove. ‘You mean you’d dare to fight someone who’s not a little girl? I don’t believe it.’ Mission accomplished, they were both running towards me, and the girl was running away. I ran with light self-confident strides. I felt good about myself for once, for about five seconds. Then I felt my shoulder explode and I was down. Shit, they were fast. My main feeling was one of chagrin that I. ”Mom laughed as she cleared the table. “Now, are you two going to tell me about those paintings?”We took Mom out to Dad’s workroom.I turned to the next blank sheet, said “Charcoal, Jim and Marilyn’s, 15th Wedding Anniversary.”I grabbed Mom and held her up, as the half dozen or so places started to draw the outlines of the two of them. She put her hand to her mouth as the forms of her and Dad started to appear. I felt her legs shaking underneath her.“Mom, are you OK?”“What the hell’s going on.