The gentler you are, the more honest you are, the more trusting you are, the easier it is for this town to beat the hell out of you."I had to change t...e subject. I said, "Look, there's a cardinal." Oh, look at him! He's so red, so bright red. He's beautiful." Where's his girlfriend?" She'll be around somewhere. Look, here she comes. There she is. They're always together. That's so sweet. I wonder if cardinals are aware, how sweet that is."I was falling more in love with Ronnie. It wasn't the. Sighing in frustration at not being able to repress that image from her mind as she grew more and mroe aroused, she gave up and, slipping her hand beneath her shirt to caress her nipple absently, slipped gently off to sleep.It felt her response to its images, mostly confusion, and knew then what it had only hoped. She was still untouched by man, unlike the countless generations that had lain beneath it in loveplay, including her own mother, who had played in its branches, but still come back to. I chastised myself. I was glad to be back. I was glad to have helped Jerry and was quite pleased with the payment swelling my bank account. But it had been an agonising, soul-searching week away.I felt bipolar, my mood swinging from pure unadulterated pleasure at the sexual side of Cassie's and my relationship, to deep depression and even shame for succumbing to her and betraying her mother, Mary, a wonderful woman I'd known for fifteen years.Work had helped take my mind off the problem, but it. I mean, it’s OK.” She lifted her head and looked down into her teacher’s half-wild eyes.“I love you–I mean–I love it,” she blushed and snuggled her face down inbetween the woman’s breasts.“Oh, my baby,” Mrs. Reeves crooned, hugging her close, “I love you, too. I love you so, so much….”Melanie raised her head in amazement, but Mrs. Reeves didn’t look away or shake her head.“For the longest time I’ve been watching you, falling for you more each day.” She smoothed the hair out of the child’s eyes..