Carla would regale Mike with tales of how she'd tantalised and tormented her unfortunate husband the previous night ... how she'd made him watch her t...ke a slow sexy shower, for example, or maybe a bath ... how he'd been forced to pat her naked body dry with a towel ... how they'd then gone to bed and she'd 'accidentally' brushed his erection with her fingers before turning away and going to sleep, leaving him burning.Mike loved to hear all this. It turned him on no end that he was fucking this. What was you staring at? my friend Joshua asked me. We kept calling you name but it was like you was in your own world. He was right, I was more involved in that kid. Sorry guys. I just had…had something on my mind thats all. Cmon lets get to the gym. I said to them and we walked downstairs to the gym. The whole time I was in gym, my mind was on that boy. I was thinking about him so much that I got hit in the face with a volleyball. The laughter of the people around me, didnt even register as I. The sanctuary of herroom afforded her a place to pretend for a few short hours that theoutside world didn't exist. Her mother and father, her brother, none ofthem existed here. This was her Le Marais, her Sch?neberg, her Haight,and her Soho. Even though she kept it nondescript and as ordinary as shecould; inconspicuous; with the door firmly shut and the lamp casting itssoft shadows, with a scarf over the shade it became her palace ofsecrets.She looked into the mirror at her reflection. Her hair. Taking a guess based on my memory of last year I putwhat I thought was enough Ph- in to at least get it back on the scale. Iknew it would take at least two hours for the chemicals to work so Idecided to do my homework and then get into the new computers. I walked into my room and saw my clothes and hung them up noticing thescreen saver on Tinkerbelle said two PM. After making my bed I gatheredup my dirty clothes and put them in Jana's hamper as she had told me to.I knew that one day in the.