With her hair and makeup done she looked captivating. She was going to have no end of men chasing after her if they could accept that she was much sma...rter than they were. I asked my seamstress to come at 1:00 just in case any of the girls had last-minute problems with their gowns. When I tried mine on she said, ‘Oh, my goodness,’ with alarm. ‘What’s wrong?’ I asked. ‘I think you may actually have lost an ounce or two.’ ‘Nobody likes a smartass,’ I said. But I smiled at her. At 2:30 it was time. " I suppose, sweetie," I said. "Your mom didn't make bad choices to end up where she's at. And I think she'd much rather not have those episodes." I know," Terri said. "It's sad, but I was going to ask to live with Dad and Tina anyway. I think you knew that." I understand. You told me." This is a better place for me. I don't think I could've found anybody to talk to me about sex like you. Or anybody else here." I can't think of anybody I would've found who would be as good a fit in our bunch as. I decided that I really needed to confront and stop her now, hopefully by getting her to break our Contract Oath first.The next issue was how best to protect Donald. I could take him to my own home 'panic room', which I was 99% sure could hold out against anything I could think of, or else I'd have to bring him along with me for the ride, and a not so pleasant probable altercation with the ex-missus. My own need for privacy and internal security won the debate, and Don hopped into my front. She was a lot younger than me- she was 17 and I was 24, so she had started developing into her beautiful self while I was in college. I lived at home to save expenses, and I can't say that sharing a room with an adolescent girl- even one as naturally sweet and innocent as my sister- was much fun. But Sinead had made it past this stage in her life and was now a young woman, a senior in high school. She was the most popular girl in her class, I had heard. I knew she could have any boy she wanted,.