Mom gracefully accepted this new financial arrangement as well as I.We skimped on things we would have ordinarily taken for granted with dad's working...income. Now, we were forced to live on what they had saved.Our home was secure and paid for. One of the nicest in the immediate area. A big Dutch Colonial.Through the resulting weeks, dad had taken to heavy drinking. Going out in the early afternoon and coming in completely plastered. Mom had always had a warm dinner ready on the table for. "Breakfast is served Old Timer." She kidded him. Chrissy sat across from her grandfather with a plate about half as full as his smiling at him all the time.They ate mostly in silence until Gramps was finished shoveling his wonderful breakfast into his face. Then Chrissy said. "Mom says that when she was a teenager you used to spank her bare bottom."William almost choked on the last of the toast he had been chewing. "What? Why the hell would your mother tell you that?"Chrissy laughed. "Caught ya. “Please go home,” Alice said to me calmly but with firmness. “We can manage. You are over tired and need rest. You will be doing more harm than good. Let me have the keys.”I took a deep breath and then handed her the keys. Without even saying a thank you or a goodbye I left and drove home.I went straight to my bedroom, locked the door and took my clothes off. I didn’t bother to shower or take my makeup off, let my hair down, or clean my teeth.I took two sleeping pills, something I rarely do,. I just wanna understand, you know?”“Ummmm. Maybe Adam Akers.”“Okay, so you like jocks,” Todd referred to the small town high school quarterback.“I guess!”“Do you think I was a jock in school?”“Probably.”“Why do you say that?”“I mean…You’re built like a Mack truck.”“Oh, you think so? I work with my hands, but I’m not in as good of shape as was back then.”“Yes, sir!”“You look like a girl in general. But in that makeup your smokin’ hot,” Todd flirted.“Thank you!”“Do you know what happens when.