It would be inhumanly cruel. You can't do it, darling."She looked up at me imploringly. Her eyes, despite the tears that were starting to form, had a ...trange new intensity about them and they glinted in a way that was almost metallic, as if cobalt had reinvented itself as a shade of green instead of blue. It struck me that despite all I had been through with Fran I had never properly looked at her eyes until this moment. And as I stared at her it seemed to me that she alone really understood. "I'll drink one now and if I'm still thirsty later on, I won't have to make a second trip," Leslie explained. She smiled, "Good night you guys. If Ms. Wilde asks where the ham went, your secret is safe with me." Good night," Allie and Bridget said as they watched Leslie walk away."Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm," Allie smirked. "Did you see her at the beach today?" She was tough to miss," Bridget answered."Who knew she had a body like that?" Allie continued. Leslie in her bathing suit had been the biggest. I sat on my bed. "Were you serious about what you said this afternoon?" She straddled my lap, knees on the bed. "Does that answer your question?" I pulled her lips to mine, brushing her lips with my tongue. She opened her mouth to let me in. After several minutes of exploring each other's lips and mouth, I broke the kiss for a breath. She and I carefully undressed each other down to our bras and underwear. I stood up and laid her on my bed, making sure her head was resting on the. "One of the things I can do is change the way people think. Make them believe things that aren't true. That's what I did to you. I made you think that you wanted to sleep with me. That's why your feelings about me have changed over the past few months. I have been slowly altering your perception of me so you would, well, do what we were about to do." As I spoke, I knew what it must sound like to her and my chest tightened, I felt like crying. I fought it but my voice cracked ever so slightly.