“I’d like to make love with you, Jett. I experimented with a girlfriend in high school and I know I’m at least a little bi, so I’d like to mes... around with your girlfriends, too. Especially Ariel. I could smell her arousal when we went off and I sketched her. I’m sure she could smell me, too. I just am not at a point where I could feel comfortable with all of them and I want to. I really want to.”We pulled up in front of the dorm and just sat there for a minute.“I can’t invite you up to my room. As long as they didn’t shoot right away he should be all right. It was eerily quiet in the main corridor. No sounds came from the rest of the mall.A police bullhorn squawked. “Please evacuate the store immediately, we’re covering all the exits.”Cameron grabbed some sweatpants and a shirt off a rack, threw them on, and adopted an appropriately panicked expression. He ran to the front of the store to find three officers wielding handguns in an arc around the store entrance with piss-your-pants. “Sparky, I’ve never been particularly religious. Do you mind if I adopt your Gods? I’ve been reading your literature, and I like their philosophies.”Sparky smiled at Lee, “I have a feeling they have already adopted you, mum.”Lee liked this answer. She had no issues with the others keeping their religions, but she felt someone, or something was looking out for her. Whether they were Gods or not, it didn’t matter. It was their teachings, as much anything she would adopt as they meshed with her. The workwas hard, and even if you kept it up, there was always a floor tovacuum. But at least I was in my maid's uniform as I did it. That hadbeen what I wanted."I appreciate you cleaning out the fridge," Karen told me one night. "Itwas a mess."I nodded. She had been nicer to me lately. I didn't know if seeing me ina dress was routine now, or if she sensed my commitment to thelifestyle, but the gay cracks had ended. We found ourselves talking, theway we did in the old days.I fell into a false.