Only, sometimes our naughty eyes would cross paths, and we would try not to look at each other for a while. Well, it was too much sexual tension. Ther... he was. A solid 15yrs older than me, but by far the sexiest man I’d seen in years. And I wanted him. And there was I….something of a muse to him, I think. A younger woman. Someone who found him worth gawking at. Well, one day, after working out, as fate would have it, I got stuck. It was raining. Not ordinary stuff either. Hail. Thunder. Wind. . I wiped myself off with my briefs and turned around, naked, so she could see my hot dog and I said, "It's small," which was the first time I'd ever acknowledged that out loud. I know I sound like an idiot but I'd been a popular jock in high school and I suppose I was in denial but it wasn't until I was in college that I realized it was tiny and it wasn't getting any bigger. I had become so self-conscious about it I had stopped dating. It was different in high school when it was my charming. “C’mon, now, boy. In the back.” The man lovingly directed the dog to the back and pulled down the gate of the pickup’s bed. “Used to be I could pick ‘em up and put him in there, but he’s just too big now, and I’m just too old.” The dog jumped up into the back, sat down in a thin blanket of snow, and seemed to pout to his master solemnly, but the old man was not having it. “Quit that, Oscar. This is a gentleman’s duty.” He said as he raised the gate again. He then turned to Riley and frowned.. Mark is working on the 5 final charges against the king, andJosiah is laboring on the first of the final three paragraphs.Once they have recited and explained their memory work to Nathan'ssatisfaction, it's usually time for lunch. After that Nathan takes hissons to the creek with his .32 caliber flintlock rifle for lessons ingun safety and marksmanship. The girls and I prepare to either hostess agathering from the church in the late afternoon that will go into thenight or begin the necessary.