" I gave each of them a smack on the lips. "See you tonight girls."As they left I tried to organize my thoughts. Of course it wouldn't be as easy as I...said to get them in shape, it was going to take a lot of my time, and I really didn't have much free time available. I had to ask myself whether or not it was worth it. What was I expecting to gain from the effort? I would obviously get sex from both girls, but that wasn't really worth the trouble. Robin Howell may have been a selfish bitch, but. ‘I still can’t get it over how she got up on that there rock.’ Gems shook his head. ‘I guess she just swam out there cuz she didn’t have no legs. She was in her real form with only a rainbow colored fish part where her legs were supposed to be.’ Royce knew that Gems called Charly’s mermaid form her ‘real form’, but that—and the possibility that she was a mythical sea siren to begin with—were debatable. On the other hand, he couldn’t help but notice that, a couple of days ago at the lighthouse. "Maybe I was overreacting a little. Now how to fix things?I called Beth. "Beth, please let me explain about..." Oh, Tommy, I'm sorry I yelled at you, but everything with Gail is driving me nuts. I'll talk to you later. Okay?" Sure, call me when you can."Well, at least she didn't hang up on me.Beth wasn't in school the rest of the week and didn't call. I wanted to give her the space she seemed to need, but I was getting nervous. It didn't help that everybody at school wanted to know where she. Saidthere's no way they'd spend that kind of money on me! Besides, whywould I want something so classy to wear around the house?"Okay," I said, "I guess I'll just have to wear another dress to thechurch dance!"It was a simple implied threat. A threat to go out in public in adress. Something I'd been thinking about doing for a long time.Hanging around the house in skirts made me feel like a dead atheist ...All dressed up with no place to go!It worked!They made me promise to never go out of.