Sit down honey, I said as I took her by the arm and gently guided her toward one of the chairs. We need to have a talk. Kayko listened attentively as ... spelled it all out to her. Describing how we had inadvertently pushed Mark and Shiori away caused her to start crying, and she realized that we had been the root cause of this whole fiasco without even knowing it. We had acted without all of the information being brought to the forefront and imposed some rather harsh punishments. We both agreed. There was a cocktail party tonight with Rob being the guest ofhonor as he had just won a large case. I had known about this for twoweeks and had bought a beautiful deep grape dress with gold trim to weartonight. It was form fitting and Rob loved the fact it showed off my newhips and derriere as well as a touch of cleavage. When I bought it Ijoked it was a panty free dress. I knew he would expect me to wear it soI suppose tonight it was going to be a tampon. I put one in thatafternoon to get. " Jacob said.This time it was Jacob that moved in for a hug and he was given another feel of his mother's charms. "You better get to bed now. School tomorrow, remember?" She smiled."I know, good night, mom." He said."Good night, sweetie-pie." She said as she stood up.Jacob watched the sway of her full heart-shaped ass as she strode towards the door. Feeling his eyes on her, Michelle turned her head and smiled back at him."Thanks, mom.... Thanks for helping me." He said."Don't thank me yet. You. "But that was the feeling I always got, too. I know the weather is absolutely shitty, but do you want to?" Why in hell do you think I brought it up?" she grinned.They had one more day of really crappy weather, then a fairly reasonable day, and then a day that was actually warm; they camped early that afternoon and had a thorough drying out of their clothing and gear. That improved everyone's morale even more. The weather stayed reasonable the rest of the trip and was sometimes even nice, and.