“Eww,” Crystal said, stepping around the puddle. She moved with her girlfriend Jessica on one side and Georgia the cheerleader on the other. She h...d her arms around both girls waist like she had her own mini-harem inside of mine. My nineteen-year-old, blonde child shook her head. “How pathetic. A real man wouldn't piss himself, asshole!”“Piss himself?” a woman asked. “Oh, my god, you're all naked.”“Oh, wow!” a younger girl exclaimed. “What's going on, Mom?”“I don't know, honey.”Scott's wife. You could see the color in his scalp.“Thank you,” he said. He handed me a card and then offered the flowers to Lissa and Melody. “Ladies, may I leave these in your care. It may not have been your voice, but it was surely your beauty.” With that, he hurried away down the hall.We intended to use every second of the night together. Lissa had bought a bottle of bubbly in the hotel gift shop and we ordered a pizza and ate in our room.Our room. Not in all the time I’d been in Chicago had I considered. Jason gazed at Sharon and the new girl. With a broad smile, he said to them, "Won't you come in? Sharon, this must be your sister, Susan. I'm happy to meet you Susan."As they stepped into Jason's home he could see Susan was visibly shaking. She was indeed bashful about meeting new people.Jason attempted to calm Susan's nerves. "I hope you enjoy your visit with Sharon, and I know you will enjoy your visit here tonight."Susan seemed taken aback by Jason's overly confident attitude.Then, without. It was simple because whenever he saw Daphne, no matter how complicated the situation seemed, just seeing her made his world feel right. A kiss made him feel that there was some order to his chaos, that there was nothing random in his world. It was simple because Daphne made him feel that he was human and not simply a discarded vestige of a failed marriage or a failed career. It made him feel that he had value and could be loved and that he could love someone back.In the darkness, he could feel.