His Aunt Linda was just a few weeks shy of turning the big 4-0.Linda checked herself out in the mirror one more time before departing to admire her fi...gure which she was proud of keeping in shape. She called ahead just moments before arriving to let Julia and Tom know to finish loading the car. She pulled up and stepped out of her Lexus, noticing someone staring at her from the second floor.At that moment, Richard stared out from his bedroom window just in time to catch a glimpse of his gorgeous. I didn't actually know if I was pregnant or not. I followed it with some root beer and didn't feel any different, but maybe a little relieved possibly. Eighty-nine percent chance of working. That sounded pretty good, like almost a sure thing.Steve and Lisa were still in the shower and I figured they would be for awhile yet, if I knew the two of them. The water was heated by geysers or something, I dunno, that geothermal stuff, and so it never got cold. Steve and Lisa could be in there all night. That realisation came while I was standing knee-deep in one of my favorite stretches of the ringriver. Just downstream of the canyonlands — what Mother called “antispinward”, opposite to the rotation of the ship — the river was dotted with a cluster of small islands planted with cherry trees. If you were daring enough, the island chain could be reached from the riverbank by leaping the foaming water via a series of broad flat rocks. Every 120 days the island’s trees would burst into flower,. They never looked at his thick black hair and big muscles, his good honest Philippine moustache and polyester shirts. Girls didn't want a man who looked like him.His sister didn't want a man who looked like him.Bitch. Always shaking her ass for the white men, the tourists and the American sailors, while good Filipino men had to beat off or go pay for it. Wearing those tight silk dresses and dancing with white men. Had she fucked any of them? God, who could tell. He bet she had. He bet Maia had.