I have no interest in the man. He even gives me the creeps.”Dori teased, “Your loss. He has a nice cock – big, too.”Alice pushed back, “Well... if he can beat over eight-and-a-half inches of what you referred to as ‘robust man meat’ yesterday at lunch, you might start to build a case.”“Seriously?” Dori’s head swung to Dave and then to his crotch.Dave shrugged and teased. “That was in college. I think I’ve grown a little since then, but haven’t measured it in years.”Dori sidled over to Dave and. "Seriously," Suriya says."In our last class," Laura explains, "Harriet spent all of her timebadmouthing Mia, because of the way she pinched your bum last night.She was offended because she saw it as 'unfeminist'-" -You know what Harriet's like," Suriya interjects."And I think she was jealous as well," Laura continues."We don't want this splitting the group apart," Suriya explains. "Youneed to choose someone, preferably as soon as possible." It's not really THAT easy, is it?" I snort. "And how. I wondered about it for the first several years but then later, figured it out on my own. It was both shame on the part of some of the men folk and anger or envy from the women. Miss Rose didn’t seem to mind but she was always very quiet on the way back from those trips. On my sixteenth birthday, Miss Rose called me into her room. I had never been there before, even for a visit. It was a Sunday and the bordello was closed to business. I went with my heart in my mouth, fearing that I had done. Love you, too. Bye."After hanging up the phone, I turned the burner down to "Lo" to make sure the pot didn't boil over. And then I sauntered into the living room. "Hey, Deej," I called out.My little sister picked her head out of her book, turning around to look at me. "What's up?" Mom asked me how you did on the first math test. She told me she told you to come to me for help on it. I had to say I didn't know anything."DJ harrumphed and returned to her book. With her back to me, she shrugged.