A small silence in the bar increased my shitty situation, staring at the intercom begging for a name other than mine, I felt the cold sweat running do...n my forehead, while I crumpled some sheets of paper and looked for a lighter without looking where my hand passed inside the drawer.-How do you think? I've read everything in the magazines in the house and on the internet.... And I've seen the Playgirl and Hustler magazines you have hidden in your room....The truth, I laughed with a loud laugh,. Too small to defend myself. People telling me I needed to learn martial arts, but it didn’t do a damned bit of good. All it did was making the beating I received worse.”Alan said, “I saw that happen too many times.”Peter said, “Taking control of my life started with something I overheard someone say. Knowledge is power. I know you’ve heard that. It’s almost a cliché among those like us.”“Yeah.”“It was one sentence, but it got me to wondering exactly what it meant. Remember that I was about. The rest of the afternoon and evening dragged by, Adam and Lynn both anxious to open their presents. The tradition in their family had always been to open gifts on Christmas Eve. Aaron just wanted it over with so he wouldn’t have to deal with it for another year.The awaited hour of eight o’clock finally rolled around. “The Grinch That Stole Christmas” was on TV, but they could tear themselves away from it because they’d seen it so many times they could practically recite the dialogue. Adam and. Hearing his breathe go faster and faster made my heart skip. I looked at the clock and it was 11:11; I made a wish. I began to take my shirt off as I was still kissing him. Jake tried to push me down the bed but I straddled him down.I started to unbuckle his jeans, started to undress him. Slowly I tried to take his boxers off with my mouth. I was tugging them slowly down, leaving small trails of kisses; his hands on my breasts. He rubbed them and pressed them together. He sat up and pushed me.