Mom said, “You’re so clever, Winter, everyone says so.”“Hmm.”“Harvey and LeAnne ... they’re having a little trouble.”“Oh?”Harvey b...ushed.Mom said, “It’s silly, Winter, but I thought an outside opinion ... like a ... a...”Harvey said, “An arbitrator.”Mom frowned, “It’s not about money, Harv.”I said, “An outside perspective sometimes helps. Like a consultant. Counselor.”They nodded.Okay, what the fuck is going on?Harvey said, “It’s nothing, not really. But it’s embarrassing.”“Okay.”Mom said,. Sure it was an odd sensation but not really painful, not like the crop had been. Her eyes never left my face as she started decorating my groin and scrotum with pins, the last of which she placed on my foreskin, that one hurt more than the others but not as bad as getting my cock caught in my zip. She planted a kiss on my lips, then glanced at the clock on the wall and a frown of annoyance crossed her face. I looked too, wow only twenty five minutes to go.?Looks as though I’m going to have. I could feel her honest concern and at the same time I was aware of her ability to generate such feelings in Nitin too. I did not respond. She started playing with my hair and kept asking ‘what did i do’. I did not respond. She started pinching my cheeks and play fully asked ‘ok. i want to prove my love to you. how do i do that’. I still did not respond.Then she moved close to my ears and then said ‘tell me anything you want and I will do it’. I did not respond because clearly my jealousy was. I suggested a field trip and everyone packed up to go look at the house. I decided to let them brainstorm a little more and not go with them. Instead, I headed back home to my studio. There was something nagging at the back of my mind.The sketches were laid out in front of me all over the studio. My laptop was playing a slide show of my paintings as I sat back and just looked at what I'd been doing. I hadn't realized what was happening to my work until the past two months when I'd done two.