~~~~~We were woken by the ringing telephone at nine in the morning. Andrea answered it and I heard her say, “Hello mum, I’ve got something to tell... you. But I want to tell the kids first.” She listened for a while, then said, “Yes, I’ll bring a change of clothes for the kids. We’ll be over as soon as we can.”In the shower, I again bent Andrea over for a quickie before we dressed and left for her parents' house. When we arrived, the kids ran to the car and I left her talking to them while I. We kept the conversation going through WhatsApp, although nothing raunchy, as I wanted to keep up her suspense.Next Friday, evening, she called to say she was at a shopping mall, and what perfume would her teacher like? I knew salsa class was on.I said it’s your gift, you choose. I can choose yours, what do you like?She said you guide me, what presume should I wear? I told her, only a little soap, I like body odor.She laughed thinking it’s funny, and said, ok baba, now let me choose one for. She should have just spent the night in the woods but now that she had made her request she would be damned if she was going to back down in the face of prudish self-righteousness!"Well, every priestess has the right to seek shelter in the house of Vesta," Marla said, more to her fellow virgins than to her cousin. It saddened Portia to be greeted this way. She and Marla had been friends in their childhood."Thank you for your hospitality," she said, nodding formally."Well, I... I guess we have. My mother gave mea contemptuous look and told me to stop snivelling. We were going groceryshopping on the way home.I spent an hour and a half in Morrisons helping with the shopping, mymother kept up the treatment ? buying me a packet of tampons andpromising to show me how to use them. To be honest I was so far gone itwas a wasted effort.We returned to the car and started home ? I lost it again and pleadedtearfully with her not to take me home like this. She just laughed.When we got home the.