"Gee Pop, that was subtle."My father chuckled. "You two think you're so sly, everyone knows youcare for each other."I stood staring at him, my breath ...eaving in short bursts of vaporousfog. "What if I did?" I asked."I'd say great!" he smiled. "But have you?" I looked at the cementbeneath my feet. "You haven't, have you?" he added with a sad sigh.I shook my head sadly. "I'm afraid of scaring her away." My fatherpatted my back sympathetically. "She's been through a lot in the pastfew years, her. When dinner was over I realized that Michelle hadindeed helped me and I was ready to go home. Michelle said, "Not yet,come back to my place for dessert."We got back to her place and I thanked her for all she had done to relaxme."You and I both know I haven't helped you with the real problem yetTommy."I must have looked confused because she told me, "We both know the realproblem is you are hard all throughout class looking at me when you thinkI'm not watching !! I figure if we have sex tonight. Neither for display nor for modesty. A pair of knickers, please. Medium. Ordinary. Not black, not white.Sarah was waiting to have her knickers removed. She had had a shower before going out, so she was confident enough. Martin knelt in front of her and pulled her knickers down. What an exciting phrase that had been when she was young. “He pulled her knickers down.” As a girl she hadn’t known what came next, but having your underwear removed must be thrilling enough.Now she lifted herself a. It’s just ... me. I’m you now ... and you’re me. We’re now one, Frank. I have fused my essence to yours, my spirit to yours, even my soul to yours. We’re now irrevocably one person, as it were. What you feel, I feel. The reason is simple ... I can trust you now in ways that I never could trust a mortal. As from this moment, you’re not really human at all. You’re Fae yourself. You’re a faerie, Frank. I am a part of you ... and you’re a part of me. What ... and who ... you love, I love as well,.