This felt good as well I stopped and rinsed the soap off too much on this body-felt good I could get very carried away and as Wendy says, "Now is not ...the time"Turning the shower off I stepped out of the shower to find Wendy waiting with a large towel for me she wrapped me up in it as I have seen her do with our children and gave me a quick rub saying "Go and get dry while I get sorted"Even drying this body was different the towel irritated my nipples causing them to erect the skin was too. I looked up and two presumably Italian seamen were disputing over something at the foot of a ships’ gangway. I found it hard to understand everything which passed between them as they spoke in a thick dialect which was unfamiliar to me. At that moment a plan formed in my mind and I approached the two men. ‘Excuse me gentlemen, are you Italian?’ I said in my deepest gruffest voice. ‘Not Italian but Sicilian,’ said one of them proudly. ‘And you work on this ship?’ I said indicating the vessel. ‘Farm girl, remember?’ So along with not talking during sex, they don’t talk the rest of the time either? He nodded and escorted her to their back door. Once inside, she silently stepped out of her overalls, tossed them at the rough-clothing hamper in the corner, and headed for the bathroom. Presently he heard the pulse of the shower. Allan frowned, took a seat at their kitchen table, and propped his chin on his folded hands. Something had to be amiss. Kate’s taciturnity had gone well beyond. . twice! And it was all that strangeness, in fact, that calmed her. Nothing that had happened to them was included in the instruction manual of how to be a teenager in the present culture. And that meant they had to invent their own procedures ... make their own rules.All of them ... including Sherry Masters.Some kind of 'acceptance' settled on her like a warm blanket. She was still aware that, only a month before, she'd have looked with scorn on a girl who agreed to share her boyfriend with.