“Well, yeah, I am sixteen,” he said proudly. “And look at what I’m looking at! It’s you, mom. You’re naked!” He clicked through a few im...ages. Oh, my...He had found a little courage from somewhere. For some reason, this pleased me.“It’ll just go away, right?” I asked.“Usually,” Toby said. Now he was blushing. “Sometimes it needs a little help.”“Well,” I said, “help it!” I figured he would think about baseball or something. Rock climbing.What he said was, “You can see I’ve been looking at. " Think about it, Brian. Carl and I both turned sixteen in November. That's over seven months ago. Seven months that the ban on skin-to-skin genital contact has been off. Tell me honestly. If Jennifer and Courtney were here in town and saw you every day and went out with you every weekend, could you have possibly stopped from going all the way?" Is that what it's about? Did you ... never mind. I shouldn't ask that." You have a right to ask it, Brian. You proved that on New Year's. The answer is. Finally she gave up, and started the shower. She showered for over an hour, until she finally felt clean, having used the entire bottle of shampoo, and rubbing the bar of soap down to the size of a small pebble. As she got out of the shower, she realized that there were no towels, or anything else for that matter, that she could dry herself off with. She rang her hair out, the best that she could. She rubbed the water she could off of her nude body, before exiting the shower.She sat there for. That’s why I’ve had to put the house in the Highlands, and the flat in London, on the market. They should get enough for another year or so. Jasmine’s education is paid for by Gerald, so she’s alright.’I took her hand from my thigh. ‘You have my cottage, and the stables,’ I said, ‘and some land, a few fields? You know, I’ve thought for a while now that the stables could do more. They’re only about a third full. We could run a livery business. A riding school. You’d be good at that, with your.