" You mean an abortion." Well, yeah."Warren took a deep breath. "OK," he said, in a tone of resignation.Sophia caught it. "Don't you think that's the ...est thing to do?" It's your body, Sophia, it doesn't matter what I think." Of course it does, Warren! Your opinion counts in this." I don't mean this to be snippy, but you seem to have already made your mind up." Well, that's only because I knew you'd want me to terminate the pregnancy." She looked at him, and realization dawned on her face. "Oh. Secretly I smiled knowing she'd been foiled.After having shown my arse to the netball team, I had no compunction at showering in front of the other girls although I made a point of not showering when Penny was there. By the end of the week most of the soreness and some of the colour had gone and I could walk and sit more or less normally.Chapter 9. Change of ownership"Here get a couple of spoonfuls of this down yer, Emmy. It'll ease yer pain and let yer sleep on a bit." Reluctantly opening my. She stands a head taller than me even in bare feet. I still had pictures of Lynn on my bedroom wall. The one I liked most was the newest showing her in the ball gown she had been wearing that fateful night.Lynn asked me to stay with her for the weekend the next time my parents went away. I accepted and my parents had no objection. Why should they? I was nineteen, nearly twenty, and my sister just thirty and recently divorced. My parents didn't know about that night. I hadn't forgotten it. How. " Have you tried to explain that it's 'trial by ordeal'? Like law school. She's got to put in her three years at ECU so that she can go on to a job in television." I've not put it that way. I might try it next weekend."Dad signaled to a waiter and told him we'd like to move to the Opera Cafe. "It's not the best restaurant in town, but the buffet was good, I recall," he said.Rachel and I pillaged the cold seafood; mum and dad took an assortment of things. Rachel told about Al and Cait, much to.