" I know she is," Meredith assured him. "Even if she wasn't, I don't worry about you. I never did and I never will. You can have a houseful of naked b...mbos in here and I know you won't do anything because you've promised me you won't. You're not the one who screwed up, Brock. You don't have to justify yourself." Well, neither do you," he said."Yes, I do," Meredith rebutted. "Last weekend, well, I don't want to go into it. You know what I did. Even I don't know why I did it. But it's done and I. I just needed ... I needed a little break.” She clasped her hands in front of her. “We have to talk.”Sam’s shoulders slumped. Suddenly, all the anger at her leaving melted. “I’m sorry, Mom.”“For what, honey?” She didn’t move.“For everything. There’s so much that’s hard to control these days.”Joyce stepped over to his bed, smoothed out his blanket a little, and sat down. She eyed the pile of clean towels and looked back to Sam. “It’s not your fault, Sam. You’re growing and going through changes.. That is how he came to know about the female anatomy. As a 9th std student I got excited and asked him who the lady was. But he didn’t tell me. I thought a lot about who the lady was, but didn’t get any clue. After my thoughts turned to sex, I noticed some of the ladies in our village were very beautiful and sexy like the ladies in the malayalam sex movies. To mention some of them would be the dhobi’s wife, two from our street and one from 3rd street.They looked more like the actresses in the. ”“I hope it works out for you,” I said, and I really did. She seemed like a good kid. I was sorry she’d lost her mother.The rest of the day passed, quick enough. I was right, it really helped to have a friendly face sitting next to me. A pretty, friendly face.That night even my stomach was growling when we finally pulled off the road in Podunksville, Arizona. There were two eating joints close, the driver announced, and he’d give us forty-five minutes. But don’t be late.Willow and I picked one.