Excited to finally see him, she had been playful, hoping to excite him. He had rebuffed her advances at first, then had suddenly struck out and slappe...d her. Hard, across the face.On the one hand it had hurt, terribly, and the bruises on her face would show for weeks. Mostly she had been surprised by his violent reaction. On the other hand, his roughness had sent a thrill through her, at first. Even after he hit her and tossed her carelessly over the couch, it hadn't been that bad. The anal. .. Williams compound last night. Yes?” When Kim grinned and nodded, Katie added, “And your mom let you?”Kim’s expression moderated after which she replied, “Yeah. She’s become more ... lenient, I suppose, with me since I told her I’d broken up with James. She never liked him. We had a ... really good talk when I came home from that ordeal and things between us have been a lot less strained since.”In the conversation break that came after that, Seamus looked at Katie, then me, and asked,. My libido and sexual curiosity were spiking already after learning how to French kiss. So I would always try to bring sex into our conversations via text messaging. I feel bolder when I'm not talking personally but she would always ignore those parts.I kept on asking her when I could touch her boobs. One night, she decided to let me touch for the sake of my curiosity. She told me that she thought of it for a long time. She thought it wouldn't hurt her principles in life that the man she marries. This wasn't the time to invoke the mostly forgotten ghosts of Gil Scott-Heron, Woody Guthrie or Country Joe and the Fish. This was the time to drop the midrange, pump up the bass and accelerate the beats per minute.No one in the audience gave a fuck about the authorities. Any heavy-handed impulse to break up the gig would be defeated by the sheer weight of numbers and the unspoken fact that many within the political establishment were secretly pleased that they now had the excuse of popular.