”She gave me that butter-wouldn’t-melt-on-her-lips smile, which only made me want to keep her at home. No, bad idea. Good Dad Mode.“You have a g...od time, honey, I’ll be here if you need me. You know I keep my cricket bat in the back of the van.”“Shush, you.”I left her to it and went to get a beer from the fridge. I made a mental note to heat up the curry from last night - that’s dinner sorted.Her friend turned up not long after I settled. Thank fuck it was a girl.It was Rachel. Unlike Jade,. I set the deck up so that Jim would win the guys hands and Connie would win the girls hands and then we waited for the girls to come back. I mixed a new drink for us all and made the girls drinks pretty stiff then dealt the cards. We were playing 5 card stud poker so the cards dealt were win or lose, no drawing to mess up the hands. I dealt the cards face up around the table it was not obvious who was winning their hand until I dealt the last two cards...Wow!!! Connie had to go with Jim and. His mother hoped so; his father, still stuck in the ‘he’s an asexual nerd’ groove, assumed ‘no, not likely’. Then they both put their son out of their heads and concentrated on their own erotic pleasure.“So, where are we going?”“I thought Woody might like to go to the woods to show off his wood”“Oh ha ha. Oh, I see, the woods! Lots of private places?”“You catch on eventually.”They walked on and then caught the bus out of town to Shankhill Park. The park starts well manicured, but cutbacks have. I looked at David and Kelli and knew that they too would be important in my future and I was more than happy to be here with them. It was hard to think of the handsome young couple as my primary biological parents, but I could see them in me, and I felt that they too were my family.I doubted I’d see many of my other kids alive when Zara said that Torus would be in sync with us again. Oddly, it didn’t bother me that much as I knew they were survivors. They still had each other, and their mothers.