He stops and I thank him for a wonderful evening. He tells me that he wants to show me a nice view. I hesitated but decide to agree to go with him t...o this place. I ask him where is it at but he says it will be a surprise. I laugh and agree to go to this place. I tell him that I will follow him in my truck. With a stern look and serious tone he says no and starts to open a car door…….the door of the car that we just “happen” to stop in front of. I didn’t know what to do since it caught me. Relatively broad shoulders tapered to a narrow waist, the stomach not exactly a six-pack, but nor was it overfleshed. His whole body exuded strength. Sturdy, powerful legs, drove him across the sward to The Tree, with the strength and smoothness of a jungle cat. He paused briefly to press his hand against the trunk, bowing his head slightly, then strode to the eastern edge of The Tree's canopy, raising his face, and his arms, to the rising sun.Aloysius Jerimiah Arbuthnot, also known as AJ, was. The yellow thing! Her attention had been drawn away for seconds! It had probably escaped! With lightening quick movements the cat shifted its eyes back to the yellow thing. It lay suspiciously still, as if to mock the cat. The object would have her believe that it had never moved, but she knew otherwise. It was time to take matters into her own paws. Standing, the cat walked slowly closer to the object. In the other corner, the human shut the large white thing, a puft of air pushing through the. “Missy Francine done odah a boy to do a thing to hissef, but’ he done tu’n de table an’ she be on her back fo’ eveh boy eveh since. Day say she do it jus’ fine.”PAPA AND CASSIEThere were the days when Mama was away and Papa would call Cassie to his room.“Part a bein’ house girl, Honey chil’,” she explained. “Ah tell you ‘bout it when you’s oldeh.”Actually, she didn’t have to tell me anything. Everybody, even Mama, knew that Papa could mate any girl he wished, the man she slept with sitting on.