She brought her hands down and ran them lightly across my chest, her medium length fingernails tracing down my chest, then back up. "Relax and don't r...sist or you might get hurt," as her hands came down again, her nails bit into my chest and scratched heavily into the skin. I could see a light trace of blood where two or three of the sharp nails bit into my flesh. Arching my back I bucked up in pain, almost throwing her from me. "None of that!" Marie declared, bringing her hand down again, this. It was clear to the girls that their fatherswanted them to marry the boys, but neither girl had an interest in them.It was all business to their fathers and the boys were getting eager tofinalize the deal. The girls had their sights on a much better prize, onethat was the ultimate prize to any girl in town but to anyone with half abrain, it was clear that he had no interest in anyone but his fiance:Mitch Gibson.Thankfully the boys' friend Mace had no interest in either girl andactually had his. Come on Missy!” I exclaimed and walked quickly past my parents to the stairs that led to my room with Missy in tow.I slammed the door to my room after me and Missy entered, immediately dropped the towel in the clothes hamper, and turned to Missy and said, “Damn, you’d think my mom has never had sex before!”Missy was still shaking inside the towel from the shock. She looked at me and asked, “I wonder how long they had been watching?”“I don’t know and I fucking don’t care! The two people that I. No sound. No life. I paused for a moment, contemplating the unfortunate vision before me. But my sense of duty urged me to hurry to the bus stop to go to work, and as I turned my back on the young fowl, I hoped that the building manager would come across the young sparrow during the day and take it away. ***** I returned from the office in a fairly good mood, sorting through the mail I had received as I walked toward my apartment until, to my dismay, I saw it. The lifeless sparrow was still.