“Hey,” Mel called. “You’re coming back, right? This isn’t some kind of bang and run thing, is it? Because just tell me if it is and--”I pu...led her to me and kissed her passionately as I dug my hand into my pocket. I pressed my car keys into her hand.“Get out some pots and pans, and set the table? Back in a few.”= = =It took twenty minutes, but I was back with several bags of goodies, including chilled wine. Melanie had put on black yoga pants and a purple tank top. It was obvious that she. The next morning, I was out the door and in my office before anyone else was there. I had woken up with a hard on and knew I had the last folder of pictures to look at. There was no hesitation this time as to whether I was going to look at them, I just clicked on the first picture and went through all of them. These pictures were taken a little more than a year ago and they were rather tame compared to what the others showed. They were only pictures of Gwen undressing and then posing naked on. Waiting awhile to make sure Elizabeth was acting completely normal before he used her trigger phrase on her, Frank asked his wife what she was planning for their daughter Karen’s seventeenth birthday the next week. She told him she was taking Karen shopping for some new clothes and then her boyfriend was going to keep her away while she set up her surprise party. Frank was satisfied she was her normal self, and it was time to evaluate her.“Frank’s whore now,” he said as he walked up to his. And there was no drama. No presidential announcements interrupted the football games. No dire emergencies tugged at us. I looked around the table and wondered how many times we would all be together. Even now, there was an empty spot in my heart that I knew was shared by my sister, parents, and pod two. That empty space that would have been filled by Pey.This needed commemorating. I called John and asked if he would take a few minutes to come out to the farm and photograph all of us together..