I noticed that she’d left the towel behind.We didn’t talk too much, just nervously mentioned a favorite scene from the movie and giggled a little ...s I worked my arms around Kristen. We were so close our noses touched as we spoke and the dim light eased some of our nerves as we got used to being close. My senses were heightened to every curve of Kristen’s body as she snuggled to me allowing our thighs to interlock and her chest to warm mine. I was already very excited as she let her hand wander. Unable to keep count, he lost count years ago of how many men, women, and children he had killed. When in the Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Pakistan, with him a trained killing machine and watching their back, his mission was to defend his country and keep his brothers in arms safe from harm. Now, with his physical strength gone and his brain a clouded mess, all he had left was his internal strength and his never ending fortitude to fight. Never surrendering and never giving up. “Hi,” I said. “Thanks for doing this.” I put my books on her desk and then I thumbed through my math book to the chapter we’d been studying. I fumbled with the book, saying, “Over here ... uh.” I put my finger on a problem and then tilted the book so that she was seeing it upside down. “That won’t work,” I mumbled. I turned the book around and put it in front of her on the desk. Taking one of the folding chairs, I went around the desk and plopped down next to her, practically shoulder to. Perhaps they wereunimpressed with a thirty-seven-year-old alcoholic claiming to be abetter mother to a nine-year-old boy than was a twenty-three-year-oldsometime nude dancer. But they had moved to Orange County to be away from Riverside County Child Welfare."I'd do anything to keep us together, you know. Anything. And fivethousand dollars is new clothes, new furniture, money in the bank foremergencies. I'd sleep with Jerry Falwell for that kind of money."Kelly said nothing."It's not like I.