" She left the words hanging in the air."Oh Penny!" I said, trying to comfort her. "It's my first time too and I feel as guilty as you do." She looked...my in the face. "Not quite as guilty, though. I started it!" She protested."But I don't regret it, Penny. What we've just done is natural between two old friends who ...." Who what?" She asked."Well, who have loved each other from a distance for a long time."We lay in silence for a while, watching the ceiling. "Have you lost all respect for me. I asked ‘are you alright?’ She said yes’ yeah, you scared me’. ‘I’m sorry’ I said She asked ‘ is this your clubhouse’ I said ‘yeah’. ‘Sorry I woke you up’ I said I just came in here to take a shit’ she almost actually scared the shit out of me. She told me she wasn’t sl**ping, and I could now tell what she was doing. She had her pants around her ankles, and a stolen porno we had hanging around. ‘hi I’m Janette’ she said I helped her off the ground. She pulled up her pants and buckled them. ‘I’m. Even at that point, I was too paranoid whether to call or not. I finally manned up and called her. The phone ringed about 4-5 times and it was like forever for me. She then picked up the call and I started with the spinning thing.We talked for almost an hour and it was just awesome!! We decided to meet on Monday at EA and go for lunch. Things progressed well and it almost took 6 weeks for me to get intimate with her. It was purely coincidental and I never expected that it’d happen.Shrutis’ got. I finally decided to ask about Charlene.Last night we didn’t get into much about her, other than Sarah telling me she was her cousin and would be away, visiting family, till New Year’s Eve.Linda explained that she was our Realtor, Charlie and Mary’s lover, as well as Sarah’s cousin. Charlie had invited her to join our family right before everything went sideways. Poor Charlene had been there, up at Ibera’s and was quite shaken with Charlie’s sudden disappearance. Charlie had already given her.