' She invited me inside to watch a movie. It turned out to be a romance movie. I don't usually like these kinds of movies, but I coped with her and wa...ched it.The first part of the movie was boring. Just couples talking about there relationship in a very cliché sort of way. Megan seemed to be enjoying it, so I didn't say anything. Then toward the middle of the movie. There was a scene at a movie theatre. A couple was watching a movie, just like us. The female character in the movie was 'cold'. To my surprise, I found myself having fun with Anna. We ended up staying out on the dance floor, shaking and shucking to the fast songs, box-stepping to the slow songs, and even standing there, side by side, watching the band play on those occasions when the beat was one of those in-between rhythms that I have always found it hard to dance to. She was comfortable staying by my side, and I fell into an easy association with her. By the last set, we were holding hands in between dances, neither. I found the room empty and grabbed a pair of mess shorts I always kept at John’s house. I wandered towards the front of the house to ask John if I could grab a shirt from his closest. I walked into the living room and on the couch was Amber, straddling and kissing John. She wore this emerald green lacey set with boy shorts that barely covered her ass. As neither she nor I are outdoor types her skin is pale and the emerald green seems to shine on her. I was somewhat mesmerized by the sight of it. She was conflicted. On one hand, she couldn’t relax around any guy, of any age. Yet, she had a body that was beginning to respond sexually.”The waitress delivered our drinks. I held my silence. This was Alia’s show. I wondered how she’d handled a difficult set of circumstances so very few parents are ever faced with.She sipped her pale wheat beer after we clinked glasses. Her pink tongue emerged to wipe up a foam mustache.“Jasmin’s behavior changed. She became short tempered, withdrawing from.