"Sorry" he said, "But family comes first."I felt bad for being pissed at him, he was right. Anyway, this meant I could take off early from work and me...et Louise and Andy at the apartment so we could all go to dinner together. Not the end of the world.I drove home and got there about 3 pm. I saw Louise's Miata in the carpark and was surprised. I had thought Andy's flight got in at 4pm and expected she would be at the airprort. Must have been mistaken, I thought.I headed up in the elevator to the. To keep her mind off the previous day’s horrors, she’d scrubbed the place ‘til it practically shone, then all by herself, she took a handsaw from the shed and climbed up the mountain behind the trailer and cut down a small pine tree. She set it in an old Christmas tree stand she found in the shed and decorated it with all sorts of odds and ends she found around the place, including a single string of colored lights she found in a box and a string of popcorn she’d popped in the microwave.Aaron. Cheryl stood in front of me. She kept moving her hands, as if unsure what to do with them. As I just watched her, she shifted her weight from leg to leg while a faint pink blush slowly moved down from her face to her chest."Do you masturbate?" I finally asked."What?" she exclaimed."Do you masturbate?" I repeated.Her blush deepened and she nodded."Answer in complete sentences, please." Yes, Jake, I masturbate," she said."Manually, or with toys?" Both," she replied.I looked at her with a raised. It was now two days after the closet scene, that I got up about six in the morning, and leaving my bedfellow fast asleep, stole down, with no other thought than of taking a little fresh air in a small garden, which our back parlour opened into, and from which my confinement debarred me, at the times company came to my house; but now sleep and silence reigned all over it.I opened the parlour door, and well surprised was I at seeing, by the side of a fire half-out, a young gentleman in the old.