No matter what you may think, or what anyone may tell you." I'm disgusting," Andrew insisted, quietly. "I'm ugly."I sighed. "You're not ugly, either,"...I said. In the privacy of my head, I screamed, 'No, you most definitely are NOT!'"I look in the mirror, and all I can see is a great, ugly, stubbly mess. A mass of dry skin, flaky lips, spots, stubble and grease." He chuckled, but there was no humour in his voice. "And I've got a fucking massive Adam's Apple."I looked at him. For all of his. He said that he was sorry and that we should stop. I always loved my brother and I always thought what we had was just the brother-sister kind of love that we all expect and think about. But when he kissed me that afternoon, something else rose to the surface. Something that scared me and something that excited me. I couldn't even tell you exactly what it was but I knew that I wanted my brother in a new and different way."So, I told him that I didn't want us to stop. I craved the attention from. I figured, she’s too embarrassed to admit she messed it up, and passed it off. Anyway, it was kinda cute. I hit the eject button on the remote. Nothing doing. I hit the eject button on the unit itself, nothing doing. All I heard was a “rrrrrrrRRRRrrr” sound, and that was that. I poked around at the door of the DVD player, which would not open, and spotted a little hole to the side of the DVD player. “You have a paperclip?” I said. “Sure,” Alicia said. She disappeared into another room and. I opened my check register and saw that Kelly had updated everything, including my direct deposited pay checks from the time of my last update some three or four months previously. I signed the checks and sealed them inside the envelopes. Another chore I'd been putting off and dreading safely accomplished.It took me another hour to finish up my sales report and summary. I decided to also write up a long overdue sales forecast and projection in which I detailed some of the reasons why I thought.