I hoped she wouldn't mind that he took a bath...*Who am I kidding? She'll either be so pleased that he took one, orfigure something went wrong and he... had to take one. Either way...* As I swung around the banister post, the lock clicked, and eventhough everything was about as covered up as it was going to get, Istill got anxious. Well, more anxious. At least I'd changed out of myguy clothes again, so I looked like I did when she left. "Oh, hi," I said when Mrs. Parker came in. "Did. When I had given the last man something to eat and drink, the snow appeared to be slowing down.On the way up the mountain, half the road was very clear and I met a big truck plowing snow off the road about halfway up. I cleared Ben's drive but found mine clear all the way to the house with the parking area cleared as well. The only vehicle out was Ezra's and it was shoveled out around it. The walk to the house and to the barn had been shoveled.I brought the basket and thermoses to the house and. But it should be someplace that I can humiliate the girls for my amusement while I’m eating. That rules out adult bookstores and strip joints. We put the new clothes in my trunk and went around to get in the car. It was then that I noticed there seem to be an unusually large number of kids skipping school. Schools must be closed today. That’s the inspiration I was looking for.My brother’s kid told me about a little luncheonette near the river. It isn’t far from one of the two high schools in. That is what happened and it’s more or less how it happened. Not in every single detail. I have made it considerably more wicked and salacious than it truly was. I didn’t plan things quite so cold-bloodedly, for example, and I didn’t do the strip poker trick, and we didn’t do and say all that sick stuff the following morning, but the essence of it is faithful to the reality. In my first term at college I did share a room with an older girl (let’s stick with ‘P’) who was a good deal less.