I'll go stay with mom." Janie, open the door." No." Yes, please Janie, open it. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I don't want you to leave. I don't want you to...leave me Janie."Janie opened the door then and looked at Joel standing there. She'd dressed while she was in the bathroom, in shorts and a pink top. She had wrapped a towel around her head, turban style. In Joel's eyes she saw his sadness and she melted."I won't leave you Joey. I hope I never have to leave you."She put her arms around him and. He was still wearing his shirt and trowsers, but had removed his jacket, and his warmth against my body felt good as I kissed the back of his neck and rested my head against his shoulder blade. I am not sure how long we lay cuddled on the couch, but it was later into the night (or early morning) when I awoke again. TJ was not on the couch. After a cursory glance around, I spotted him in the kitchen drinking coffee he had gotten up and made for himself. Somewhere down in my limbic brain as I. ”“And you know about this,” I wondered aloud.“Oh yes,” he admitted.“Interesting!”“Yeah. Billy fucks me sometimes too.”“What?!?!?”“Yep. I like grown man dick, Oleg.”“Does your mom know?”“She does. She watches Billy fuck my cute boipussy.”“Oh my goodness,” I opined.I lay awake thinking about Rita’s sexy self getting banged.One afternoon, Loren and I had just gotten back from school. He broke into the liquor cabinet and got us some gin. We both got drunk and he went to sleep. When Rita came home. There was a card attached to the front of the stainless steel appliance,mostly hidden beneath a few other business cards. I'd put it there so Icould get to it easily if I needed, but not so obvious that Melanie wouldhave seen it. Lifting the small magnet holding it against the freezerdoor, I held it in one hand while I dialed with the other."Who are you calling?" Melanie asked, starting to take a step toward me.Kara moved to block her path. "Answer me!"The line rang three times before I heard.