He can get away with outrageous statements like that because he treats us all so well. From most guys, you’d want to slap them, but from Steve it’... actually charming and funny.”“You can’t have it easy given your situation,” Lauren said. “I bet you get grief from people.”“True. But it’s not as bad as it is for Jennifer and Josie, or my friends Larry and Drew, or even my ‘goth’ friends. In our case, if we need to, I introduce Jessica as my wife and Kara as a very close family friend. We don’t do. She didn’t look all that guilty about getting me in trouble, in fact she looked like she was having the time of her life. She walked past me, picked up the paddle, tested it in her hands, then walked behind me. Oh shit.Hatch said, “Pet, ask Luce to give you three, to test out the paddle. Show her how you arch up, how good of a girl you can be.” I arched up, straining up on my toes. “Lucy, please give me three with the paddle.”Crack.It wasn’t even a good one, and it hurt against my bruised. " He'd repeat over and over again. Personally, I was getting a little sick of hearing it but knew that he probably wouldn't give up until the rest of us agreed to watch some of that stuff with him. "There's this really cool one called Dragonball Z....." I just sighed and pretended to pay attention. At least it was better than when he was on that health food kick awhile back, or even worse, when he'd "found" Jesus. After awhile, we came to the top of a large cliff that was looking down on a. The rest of the task force came in and a discussion was going on when Troy and the President came down.“Well, you said you were going to unload on them and you did. I couldn’t see their faces but I’ll bet they were something to look at. That was some order you laid out to them. It’s a wonder the General didn’t try to hit you,” Troy said.“You should have seen the General’s face when I approached him as they were entering the building. He was looking for someplace to run for a minute,” I.