Brad nodded and bent to his assigned task. Brad accepted the two plastic cards the clerk offered him in a nice envelope."The stairs are right over the...re," the clerk said and pointed.Brad turned around to see his wife and the old couple skirting a bank of elevators and walking down a hallway beyond."Ash?" he called quietly. "Ashley..."She apparently couldn't hear him over the bustle in the lobby. She didn't pause even an instant and certainly didn't turn around to rejoin him and their luggage.. Just then the phone rang inside the house and Grace ran in to answer it. While she was inside I picked up the sunscreen and offered to do the girls. Bridie turned around and stood with her back to me. “Please. We red heads need to use it all the time, so don’t miss a spot.”Just as I was finishing up applying the cream to Bridie, Grace came back out and said that Wendy was on the phone for Mel and Mel hopped up to go inside. Minutes later she returned to tell us that she had been invited to help. I'd missed my commencement. So had the triplets, Jen, and Courtney. We all had binoculars trying to pick out the grads we knew as they filed into the stadium. Rose, Samantha, Whitney, Josh, and Cassie from our casa. Lionel from Casa del Sol. Sandy and Doug from Casa del Agua. Rachel was on a five-year architecture program and wouldn't graduate until next year. Brenda, Carl, and Louise from Casa de la Tierra. And Maggie and April had both managed to finish the last class required for their. Then, holding my testicles, he said, "Now this goes up your ass, but it's small ... Don't go nowhere if you want to keep your nuts." He forced the brass ball on the other end into my asshole; it was smooth and slick metal, so there wasn't much to fight, although, unprepared, I fought it a bit and it hurt. He slid it deep inside on its stiff mounting wire. "Okay, we're set. Somebody gimme a chair and a cup." Coop, grinning, came forward with a straight armchair. "Sit," Master directed. He ran.