We had dinner and she went had a bath but I was flagging while I did the washing up and a few other small chores around the house. I told her I weren'... going to stay after all and shortly after she climbed out the bath left. In hindsight perhaps I could have waited a little bit longer to help her but that's by the by. She's now in bed with him while I sit in my bedroom having finally got the bus home after a 10 min wait.. He might not stay long as he has work in the morning she told me before I. He dida double take as I instantly buried the idea that wewere “too laid back!”Kissing me on the cheek he said, “Iri, I know I said‘bare as you dare,’ but I didn’t think you’d really doit.”“Too much?” I asked with trepidation.“Oh NO! You’ll be the hit of the party! And before it’sover they’ll be others who’ll join you.”What a night. We danced. We met new friends. We wenthot-tubbing with three other. Damn! This is your fault! Yours and Michael’s, that is. You owe me a husband, you know! You owe me a helluva lot of sex, too, that I’ll be missing once he goes up in this apparent Rapture that I was already afraid might leave me behind, due to the halo thing. So ... are you gonna pay up or not?” Lacey Chabert challenged me, making me laugh.“Well, I can promise you, babe, that you won’t be shortchanged on the sex front, but as for husbands, just bear in mind that monogamy is dead or dying. "See?" she said. "Nothing to worry about. Come sit down." She lifted her feet so that I could take a seat on the couch, then rested her legs on my lap. I mentally chided myself for not wearing shorts. What I would have given to feel her skin against mine right then! She reached down and picked up the blanket from off of the floor, and I helped her cover her legs again.We sat for a few minutes, Ashley focusing on the show on TV and me pretending to do the same. But my mind was certainly.