Maybe Dale and Clarissa were right; maybe I needed to get away from Harding County and McKinley. Maybe medical school in California wasn’t such a ba...d idea after all.“Mikey?”I jumped a bit, startled by my sister’s presence.“Hey, Liz.”“Did you and Clarissa have a fight?”“What makes you say that?”“She called you a ‘shithead’, in Russian when she came upstairs!”I nodded, “She’s learning so she can follow along without a translator. But we didn’t have a fight the way you mean.”“Can I sit down and. I tried not to make it too obvious but he was also not objecting. Damn it felt good. I acted like it was an accident when I poured some oil over the ass of his briefs. He just looked back and smiled, requesting that I not forget his thighs. With that I continued to move down as I poured oil on my hand and started to massage his thighs. He didn’t object as my hands moved inward. My hand grazed his balls I could tell they were tight. I was staring at his tight ball sack and didn’t realize my hand. And the town was still spreading out and I didn’t see the work drying up for quite some time. Nathan, daddy’s little boy, had been born at two in the afternoon on a Wednesday. I’d been at work at the time and was nearly arrested twice as I raced to the hospital. He’d given Oriana the most difficulty, but damn if he wasn’t the cutest baby I’d ever seen, and delivering him had been one of the greatest things I feel I’ve ever done. Oriana had cursed the air blue trying to push him out, very nearly. She could choose to be angry and hurt, or she could choose to live in the moment and enjoy life as it comes. Long ago, she’d learned how not to be a victim. She’d learned to control her emotions and make the best of the situation. Peter was out doing whatever made Peter happy, and now she was going to do whatever made her happy. First, she had one more errand to run. At night, the Midway motel still made her uneasy. Tom wasn’t in his cabin, so she wandered around the grounds, looking for him..