"I don't think you can help me there Kim," Ben answered. "I can't leavemy mother there." But Ben, don't you think she'd want..." Kim," Ben said in a ...ery level, mature tone. "No. Thank you, but no.Here or there, this life, or that oth..." Ben exhaled giving up. "She'ssacrificed everything she might have had for herself to give it to me.I will not leave her on her own." Then money... I can get..." Kim counter offered."He'll find it Kim. He'll find it and take it and drink it all up.Then he'll. Maxie tried to beg off the chips and I elbowed him for worrying so much about how he looked. We sat on a long low wall in front of the pavilion and ate our late lunch, watching the sun going lower, drying our clothes and turning the sky into shades of pink. Maxie smiles all the time and I felt my heart pounding it's way out of my body every time he looked at me. How in hell had I gotten this lucky? And what in hell was I going to do now?We drove back to the city as the sun began to bleed into. Outside." And where was your supposed girlfriend?" What could I do? I was at their cottage. I couldn't leave. I hated it," I told sis, a semi whine in my voice. In fact, although I'd been nervous as hell those few days at the cottage, worried about not only Sarah finding out but also about her dad, they'd also been extraordinarily exciting. I'd been living on the edge and I'd loved it."At dinner she'd twine her leg around mine. Run the bottom of her foot up my leg. And Sarah and her dad were. They both were laughing at me and passing comments about me. As soon as I completed, they instructed me to place the bowl back in kitchen and return. I did it immediately and came back. Girls asked me to sit down on the floor. Both of them thanked me for their dinner and said it was nice and heavy.So we want rest for one hour. I said Yes mam. A strong kick from girl 2, she yelled at me. Who asked you to talk.? Girl 1 appreciated her friend for the kick and came near me and attached the Dog.