She acted like nothing had happened and was now dressed in her nightie.I asked her if I could use her bathroom she told OK. She was now sitting on the...bed leaned against the wall and scrambled through the TV channels with the remote. I went inside the bathroom and shut the door but it was not locking. I called my aunt to check and she told it won’t lock just close the door I won’t open. Then she went off. At first I set me thinking but then I thought why not? She is just my aunt. I again called. After tonight, he wanted her to want him. And his experience with women didn’t include experience with love or with a virgin. He went past the desk on his way to smoke in the lobby.“Told you,” said the clerk.“Pardon?”“I didn’t need to see the license.”“They told me to bring it.” Larry said.“Rules. Easier to say ‘let’s see your marriage license’ than to say ‘you don’t look married.’ But lovers would be upstairs tearing off each others’ clothes. The groom came downstairs to smoke while the bride. We visited communes in the coastal hills. We went to schools and libraries and halls in coastal towns for free or cheap movies or music or plays or whatever. We dealt, shopped, worked, played. We whiled away the summer. Some folks talked about remaining in Camp Navarro through the autumn and early winter. I looked at the sign mounted about thirty feet above the highway, indicating the high-water mark of the 1964 flood. I thought that staying into the rainy season was not a good idea, y’know? —. ”I shook my head. “You’re the only one who’s sampled Ben here, Mom.”Sara shook her head. “Barb, I wonder where she gets that attitude?”Mom smiled. I mean, I’m kinda sharp-tongued around family, but in public I dial it back. I know how to act. We ended up watching TV until bedtime.“Y’all just got to enjoy the rest of your evening,” I said, exaggerating a sigh.“I don’t wanna hear it. You’n Mandy had plenty of your own time before me ‘n Sara got started.”“You could’ve invited Mandy,” Sara said.I.