" Don't you think it's time for me to get some handling?" she said.I looked up at her in shock."I mean," she blushed, "I'm supposed to play with mysel...f, right? And give you a blowjob, right?" Well, yeah," I said. "But not until, like, the middle of October." And of course that's only if I win both the local and the intercounty," she said unsmilingly."Look at yourself," I said.She looked at me, a question in her eyes."No, I mean look at yourself in the mirror," I said, nodding at the mirror we'd. “I can’t wear the same clothes all day. I have a top to wear that is much lower than this, and a skirt very much shorter, all for my lover to appreciate during dinner and later,” she said, kissing him.“Fuck, I’m getting hard already!” He kidded.Before leaving, Dan took Karen in his arms... “What are you going to do?”“Cathy is coming over to join Diane, Brenda, and I. We’re going out to buy hair dye to I can return close to my natural blonde.”“You always had beautiful looking hair,” he said,. I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to or not, and I was too abashed to ask. So I stood there, and watched the ashen faced mourner’s filed by. Isaac was the last in the line. *** We went to another small ceremony that night where we had a light dinner, then headed back to our place. Isaac found a seat and brooded, I put some of the food that had been passed to us in the fridge and came back to give him shoulder rub. For a few minutes nothing was said between us. ‘Thanks for going today.’ ‘No, it. ‘And when it comes to cookin’, Elena couldn’t knock a hole in the wind with a sackful of hammers,’ he said. ‘But I don’t want no bad blood between you and her right from the git-go, so that’s why I said what I’d said. I hope you understand it don’t minimize your hard work and that it’s being appreciated.’ She smiled. ‘Don’t worry, Mr. Barrington. I understand. But since we’re on the subject of cooking…what would you like for lunch—um—afternoon supper?’ ‘No need for that. We have a caterer come.