I came back up to the Hospital, where Nurse Jones caught me at the front door. ‘There is a woman in the lobby waiting room.’ Nurse Jones said. ‘...She says she’s Todd’s family, but when I suggested she go up to the maternity level waiting room, she said she’d wait before doing that.’ I looked in the lobby waiting room, seeing the backside of a woman covering her face with a shawl. It was her lovely legs that gave her away to me. ‘It’s good.’ I said. ‘I’ll handle it.’ ‘Who is she?’ Nurse Jones. Sara’s efforts had nothing but positive effects on Amy’s performance on me.We were all so consumed with the pleasure we were both giving and receiving that it took a while to realize that there was a fourth person in the room. I opened my eyes momentarily to see Peter standing in the corner of the room with his mouth hanging open. Peter was a cute boy in our grade who was the brother of Stacy, one of the girls a year younger than us who was on the junior varsity team which had practice. I search your eyes, your face, looking for scary motives, and find none. You look at me, my eyes, my face flushed, my body slid down in the chair, my forearm disappearing under my skirt, back to my eyes. And you smile, slightly, slowly, your eyes growing warmer and kinder as each second passes. I look into your friendly, interested face, looking for anything predatory, using, dismissive, mean, don’t see it, just a kind of warm appreciation that finally makes me smile back. I pull my hand out of. As the girls completed their homework, I had dinner ready. We invited Jen, but she graciously denied saying her aunt was waiting on her. She left and we ate without incident. While cleaning up I told the girls of my plans for the weekend, unfortunately, their mother was going to be in town and wanted to take them shopping, to buy their forgiveness for the last three months of no contact. Not one to cause trouble I shook my head and pretended I was not disappointed. Not having to work the next.