“Look Gerry, your here for a week I am told, so we had best introduce ourselves and our preferences, My little shit of a husband said it`s, ‘an of...ice get to know your colleague scheme’, but till now I had never heard of a Gerry, in his ramblings!” Incensed, our man said, “I am Gerald, never Gerry! I work up a floor from Ernest, basically I am his boss, but we drink together on Friday nights and share a train to and from Ashford on a daily basis, oh and we have done so these couple of years,. Matty stood with his face turned up to the sky, letting the snowflakes hit his face as though he had never seen snow before.Grace stood watching him for what seemed like a long time. Matt pulled her in close and touched his freezing lips to her warm ones. It had been the best kiss that Grace had ever had in her life. Shortly after that kiss, when he was walking her into her apartment building, she asked him what he was doing for Christmas and when he had said he was staying home Grace invited. There was six couples, all the women I would guess in their late 40's and early 50's. The men were maybe a little older. The women were not bad looking, they seemed to be fit while the men were a little over weight. It was weird to see these white people walking around naked, flowers in their hair and smoking pot and drinking. Weird I guess because of their age. They talked us into taking off our clothes, we thought what the hell and being that we were just teens we would try anything once. . .. first, Van ‘borrowed’ Jake’s hypnosis kit, then Mom caught him, and her idea of teaching him a lesson was to have him hypnotize her? Did it never occur to you, Mom, that Van’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer? You’re one of the smartest women I know, but that was ... wow, quite the fuck-up!” Kyra blurted.“Watch your language and tone, young lady!” Reba reminded her, though she knew that Kyra was right ... it was truly a blunder on a colossal scale.“Okay, you’re right, Mom, but so am I..