She then returned the favor. We finally got out when the water began to cool off. One day when I buy my own house, it’ll have one of those instant w...ater heaters like they have in the UK. That way there would be an endless supply of hot water.We got dressed and went to the kitchen for breakfast. The look on Dad’s face was priceless when I walked into the kitchen with a Victoria’s Secret model. Mom kicked him under the table.“She’s new,” Mom said to me, and then turned to Miranda. “My son has. Then I felt her shifting herself up behind me until she was cuddling me from the back. We lay there quietly for a while.A little later, there was the quietest whisper – so quiet that I don’t think she meant me to hear it.“I swear to you, sister of mine, I swear to you that I will look after you. If you don’t find somebody then you will live with me until you’re ninety.”I breathed three times, but she didn’t say anything more. Her simple promise had squeezed my heart into a tiny ball.“What. After she had finished her coffee and another cigarette she flicked the dregs from her cup and stood up saying:"I'm just going over to those bushes as I need a pee."I quickly put down my cup and stood up, saying'I think I'll come too - I need one as well and I'd like to watch you." Don't be disgusting - you find your own place away from mine." Mum replied."Please." I begged, "I've never seen a woman peeing and I thought after last night that you wouldn't mind. Please." I told you that there was. Jean and I became friends, walked to school every day,and dated when his mother decided we were old enough. Gene woreboy clothes in school all the time and Jean wore dresses at homeall the time. I felt equally comfortable with him in both modes.We went to college together; I majored in English and he majoredin computer science.One evening shortly after we graduated, his mother drew me aside.She started talking about petticoating, and about what a lovelychild it had made Gene, and about wives.