Steffi often would tease Billy about how lucky he was, or how boys shouldhave to do the same things girls do. She'd even threatened to have Billysit ...own, so she could do his makeup too. Billy almost did it -- he satdown, and probably would have accepted the styling, but Steffi laughed itoff and quit first.Steffi didn't quit the time that Billy joked about fixing her hair,however. Steffi liked long hair, which she could pull back in aponytail, pigtails or some other style. This day, Billy. ” Ciaran raised an eyebrow. “I’m led to believe it’s a wedding night tradition.”“Unfortunately, Mark figured out another tradition is to get so pissed it took both his brothers to carry him to bed, so I guess my marriage isn’t getting consummated tonight.”“Well, it’s still early.” Ciaran’s grey eyes twinkled suggestively as he glanced at his watch. “Okay, it’s almost two in the morning, but you never know. You might still get lucky.”Alice laughed and gave a mock curtsy, running her hands. It also helps teach them the full implications of the first rule. The crowding, the loss of privacy, and the nudity make violating the first rule almost automatic. The first years can’t learn the rule deep inside them where it counts, without this environment. The environment is enforced to protect them, even if it hurts a little at first.”Nathan sat back and thought about boot camp. Close order drills, close-cropped haircuts, and Drill Sergeants screaming in the faces of new recruits served. " You'll have to elaborate on that."She paused, apparently deliberating the response - if one was forthcoming at all. Finally, she began. "My period is just a couple of days away, for one thing. I know, there are the pills, but I ran out of them a week back - the local drugstore expects the next batch only by Monday. So right now, I am as fertile - read unsafe - as I've ever been in my life." You could buy them from the city - " Drive all the way and back - no gas, Daddy. It's too hot to go.