"Ben!" My aunt yelled. I looked up from the kitchen counter as her yell snapped me out of my thoughts. "Can you go and tell Anne to finish up we have ...o leave in 10 minutes." I nodded and slowly trudged up the flight of stairs. As I got near her door I heard tons of giggling coming from inside. "Anna?" The voice was that of her friend Lisa I think. "That boy that's here is your cousin right?" I heard her snort. "He's cute do you think he would date me?" I heard her friend ask.Anna snorted. And I fell into the routine, doing Juliet.It was beautiful, and passionate and over far too quickly.We stopped, and went to bow, and the place exploded with applause.But I wasnt thinking about that. I went to the dressing room, and sat ona bench, trying to collect my thoughts.Something had happened to me out there. At some point I stopped playingthe role of a girl.And found one inside of me.And I didn't want to give her up, to go back to being a boy.So I did the hardest thing I could do, and. Once trust was gone in your wife, you might never get it back. I told him everything about his mother-in-law. I said if she had come and confessed after sleeping with the man the first time, I might have kept her and tried to rebuild the trust. After twenty-seven years of her cheating it was impossible for me to even consider it. We got drunk and it was me that half carried him home that night. He slept on the floor and I slept on his couch.Patti had evidently called her mother and cried on her. Fighting Hawk could tell that it was all that she could do not to jump on him, but she looked at the other warriors and straightened her shoulders. She left his food and water without saying a word, but her eyes spoke volumes to Fighting Hawk. He looked away so he wouldn't be tempted.The days continued the same way, Water Lilly bringing his food in the morning. Fighting Hawk holding court around the counsel fire, and then one of his women bringing his evening meal. Then he would sleep at the.