I wished I could sit far away from today’s attempt to satisfy my one true love. As I sat, still sitting, crying softly, staring at the blank ceiling...above. Chapter Three – Cal’s waterfront Cal had not long dropped me at my Santa Barbara Condo. It was 8:30 at night and he needed to be in town by 9:00 in the morning. The porch light came on as he entered his warm and sleepy living room. He poured a Chardonnay and reached for his IPad, choosing to upload the weekend shots from his IPhone. The. "You have TWO 'yes' votes!" When we're both old and grey you're gonna still be reminding me that I did Sherry."Giggle. "According to Sherry, you didn't 'do' her. Y'all just played around." But I can do you," I said."I love you doing me. I get to do you right back, though." There's more to life than sex, punkin," I said."Ooooooo, a role reversal. I LIKE those. I'm supposed to be the reluctant vulnerable teen and you're supposed to be the insatiable lecher." She giggled.I love the giggle. She. . Why don't you ever worry about me?Uki: Why do you think I just did all that! I worry about you all the time. There's just the three of us now. Of course I worry.(Sanosuke smiles, and slips outside.)Sanosuke (thinking, under the stars): She's right. But this is no place for me. He's doing well, even with his short temper. Protecting Uki and Outa and the waystation. Putting up with it all so he doesn't explode. Fighting... Protecting and fighting, fighting and protecting--you keep that up all. I would have to think of some flimsy excuse to tell Lisa, as common sense would say that "Christy and I stopped off at a cheap motel and had mind-blowing sex on the way to taking her back home to her mothers house" would more than NOT go over well with my wife.I smacked Christy' bare ass and told her we had to get going. Then I went to take a quick shower to wash the telltale smell of seedy motel sex off of me."God Kip," she breathed I came out to dress and she already had her clothes back on..