But I thought that once I got Carmen on a date with me, I could easily win her over so she would want me as much as I wanted her."Oh, Ryan. I had no i...dea you had this kind of trouble. But Ryan I can't go on a date with you. I just can't honey, I'm happily married and I don't think it would be very comfortable for you dating your best friends mother," Carmen said silently."Mrs. G. I want nothing else and if the answer is no then I guess I have no other recourse but to go to the school-board," I. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking: damn, dude, that must have been awesome; what a lucky SOB! I didn’t feel lucky. I grew up in a church so strict that we looked down on Southern Baptists as liberal heathens. It was bad enough that I couldn’t stop masturbating, not even to avoid being damned to hell, but now I had let Mrs. Baker seduce me into committing some REALLY serious sins. Adultery. Fornication. Sodomy. Of course, maybe the worst sin was that I had promised her that I would persuade her. "You are the reason she's buried in an early grave." I really wished he wouldn't insult my mother like that. It broke my heart and reopened old wounds, worse than actually stabbing me and it was just as painful. My father held my life in his hands, my breaths struggled to ease into my lungs without inadvertently causing his hand to slip any closer to my neck than it already was. The man ahead of me glanced to his side briefly but continued to the door. I wrenched a little in his grip, his. It had been during her trial that it was discovered that she herselfhad been born into one of the Sun Clan families of Seekers but passedover, never imprinted with the Clans tattoo ring. True she was gifted,but she was deemed a radical because she thought others should justgive her privileges as a Member of the Sun Clan, the first and oldestof the Seeker Clans.Trader and Ta Ray had been given the rings that were in her possessionand in her Quarters at the Temple on Omega Seven. There were.