No luck. Then later that night, Stephen called me on my cell phone. He was in New Orleans for a few days." Yea?" Linda said. "So what did he say?" Wel...," Carly said, "He told me he was lonely. He'd been drinking, missing his wife, you know." Linda nodded again. "Then he ... uh ... he..." He what? Tell me," Linda's impatience was well known among friends and colleagues alike and Carly could feel it."He started talking about sex," Carly said."What does that mean?" Linda asked."He started talking. " My hand slapped the table to her surprise. Without a word I left for my apartment. When I returned I said, "Unfortunately I am all out of everything but this." I waved a bottle of Seagrams 7 at her. "How is that unfortunate?" she asked with a smirk. "Oh, I just figured..." trailing off, realizing I had made a fool of myself. "What you figured I wouldn't like it because I'm a girl," she said dragging out girl like a little kid would. I pointed at her with my free hand "GURL" cringing while I. Putting her jogging shoes in her backpack, she threw on a pair of sunglasses over her head and was ready to go.The rest of the morning came and went like other mornings. Jessica got a ride to campus from her roommate Kate.Kate always took a different way with the car to campus and neither had any clue of the storm damage from the night before. Had she known, one would have to guess she would have avoided the walk home.The campus day came and went like all the others. A few of the guys had made. Lillian still had an incredulous look on her face.“What?” I said.“You’re related. Wow…”“You’re acting like I’m the ugly one or something,” I said, laughing. I watched Raven’s hips sashay over to another booth. She bent over.“I didn’t say it,” Lillian responded.I saw one of the drunken males try to cop a feel on her curves. Raven turned around, catching him red-handed. I chuckled.“That’s my not-so-little cousin,” I said.“Isn't it a bit ironic?” Lillian asked me.“What?”“That all of a sudden you.