”They both helped me up, walked me to my room and sat me on my bed. Our dad left to get me my glass of water.Sammy looked more serious than I’d ev...r seen her look as she said, “What’s going on with your hair? You kept saying, ‘He liked my hair. I don’t want it anymore.’ And at one point when Dad left you mentioned Nathan’s name. Did he do something to you? Please tell me.”I looked at my body and for the first time noticed that I was now in my pajamas instead of naked. I thought about delaying. Leaning back against the worktop and enjoying the admiring views from Matt and I, she took a sip from the glass. She looked at us both with a big naughty smile on her face. She knew she had our full attention.Matt and I both sipped at our drinks while also drinking in the vision of Jay before us: Long, stocking clad legs enhanced by the black high heel shoes; the black sheer baby doll nightie that did nothing to hide her nakedness beneath, and a look in her eyes that offered far more than just. Wilco smiled at her and opened the door.Once inside, we were surrounded by different machines and contraptions, mixing and boiling and adding ingredients."This place is a mad house," Mrs. Veetee said."I think it's pretty," Scarlet said as she pressed buttons on a random machine. It beeped and shot out a fine dust at her face. "Ah-choo! Ah-choo!" She started sneezing repeatedly."Sneezing powder," Wilco said. "It should wear off in a minute." Serves you right," Laitia said smiling at her sneezing. John Tays disbanded the El Paso Company of Texas Rangers as soon as the horse soldiers arrived, and washed his hands of the whole mess.The following day, the commander of that cavalry troop, a white Lieutenant named Louis Rucker, dropped in at the hotel to visit me.Lieutenant Rucker picked a propitious time to drop by, because I was trying to train a chorus line when Lola, the girl working the desk, led him into the ballroom. Lola curtsied when she came up to the table at which I was sitting,.