Her finger was muchtoo big, but there was… yes!Sherri stood up and cradled Rambo as she walked towardthe bathroom. At first the guinea pig looke... puzzledand looked dazed, but then he evidently decided that hecould use a brief rest and began purr-vibrating again.Sherri opened a bathroom drawer and found what she waslooking for, a rubber syringe from an earwax removalkit. The tip was just the right size. Luckily she had asmall jar of Vaseline, too; she coated the syringecarefully before. “A trap door to your apartment? Must be real convenient to keep the salespeople away from your front door,” Harper said with a light chuckle.“It has its uses,” Jim grinned before climbing the ladder. Harper followed and Jim helped the young teen into the loft. “Well, it’s not much but it’s home. Saves me from having to rent a room somewhere. Instead of paying both a mortgage and rent on an apartment, I just cut a check for the mortgage.”“Makes sense,” Harper said as she looked around. There was. It was a sign of weakness. ‘No, Fifths, I’m not leaving.’ He put his arms around me. I sobbed against him. ‘I’m not going anywhere. I start grad school in the fall.’ When I calmed down, I hit him, pretty hard this time. ‘How could you let me think that, even for a moment? That’s cruel.’ ‘I didn’t, I had, I didn’t realize you’d hear it that way. It never crossed my mind for a second to go anywhere without you. How could you think that?’ Now he sounded incredulous. ‘I don’t know. It just sounded. They all laughed at this and began having a very enjoyable dinner.After the plates from the final course had been cleared away, the kids told Amy and Pietro they needed to talk to them, and could they join them in the family room."Okay," Amy said after a few minutes of staring at the kids and they're not speaking, "so what do you want to talk to us about?" Umm," John said, "umm—do you like the girls' costumes," he asked lamely." Like 'em," Amy said, "I want to rip them off and try them out.