The next day, back home, I was clean and warm and in bed, still hearing the patter of rain in my ears and ready to drift off imagining the feel of the... ground under my shoulders, when my father came to tuck me in. He had a book in his hands."Dani. This is for you. My father gave it to me when I was a bit older than you are now. Keep it with you. Read it, and understand it, and let it guide you."I turned it over and over in my hands and traced the lettering on the cover and the spine. Wildwood. ” “You want to be here, you want to do what I tell you to?” “Yes, of course.” Lily reached shaking hands to the buttons on the front of her dress and unfastened them, peeling the wet cloth from her body and letting it fall to pool at her feet with a wet splat as it hit the wooden floor. She leaned down while his eyes watched her and slowly peeled off her soaked stockings. She hesitated as she reached behind her and unfastened her bra, lifting her eyes she stared for a moment as her watched her,. “And I’ll take you up on that. But it won’t be the same. I always loved it that you let me ... that you’d risk me getting you pregnant.” He handed her son back to her. “But I love being with you under any circumstances.”When Bobby got back home, he had three horny women waiting for him.Flo, confused by the feelings she had for Ted, needed his attention, and claimed him first. None of her sisters, she thought, knew that Bobby was actually fucking her. In the past, it had become routine for two. That was the bad thing about songs. Once they got lodged and stuck in your brain, there was no getting rid of them.Laura had another vodka and glumly tried to get some sleep. By morning, she had managed only a few hours of slumber, and many of tossing and rumpling the sheets and staring hollow-eyed into the darkness. She dragged herself out of bed for work, going through the motions as if in a dream, the dream she had not had through inability to sleep.Feeling emotionally and physically numb,.