I told them that we didn’t get here until about 5am and that you put me up in the guest room. “Do I have to keep my hands to myself? He says he doesn’t care. I’m not exaggerating when I say I would have died out there in the woods if your son had not helped me out. I pulled her over me and, grabbing her hips, positioned her so she was straddling my chest. I wanted to fit in with them, so I turned my back on that basic moral teaching you tried to instill in me. “I should certainly hope so. As horrible as last night was, it reminded me of what you guys always tried to teach me. Let’s go and see if my folks are still up so we can say goodnight.”
We headed for her parents’ wing. The table conversation turned to college and what we wanted to do after we graduated.