The smile quickly vanished into the rest of the dance. It was a momentary weakness but the memory was vivid and fond. The boy had simply walked up to ...im and asked him to spar. The sheer audacity, arrogance and stupidity was staggering. This punk, this black punk was challenging him as if it was as natural as saying hello. As if the best way to get to know someone was to spar them. He’d considered for a moment saying now, just walking away but he couldn’t. There was no way he was going to give. "She happened to have that very same pair on at the time," he then added."Funny you mentioned that," I now said implementing the second phase of my plan. "It just so happens that the chapter I'm just starting to edit deals with an experience similar to that," I told Jared.The truth was, there was no such chapter, but I decided to use that as further enticement, not that he really needed any. I could clearly see Jared was once again as hard as a rock now. It was more a matter of his working up. Stef stuttered, "You're not pregnant are you, Penny?"I smiled. My lover answered the question. "No, I'm not pregnant."I continued, "The secret is that we thought she was pregnant for a couple weeks at the beginning of the month. We messed up at a party and had sex without a condom. Without knowing it, we did everything possible to make sure that Penny got pregnant, but she didn't."Stef stared at Penny, "Really?" Penny nodded yes.Eddie said, "The beginning of the month? Jeez, no wonder you were. They must have been well over sixty but were looking sprightly as we passed on the trail and exchanged greetings. As they disappeared down the trail, Becky shook her head. ‘Boy, I’m glad I didn’t complain about the climb. They were old enough to be our parents’ Becky said grinning. In moments, after a bit of a scramble over bedrock we were on the summit, and while it was only a tiny mountain in the grand scheme of things, the view was spectacular, and even more so when you considered the.