She loved the way Crystal's chest rose and fell with each breath, pressing against Kari's lips. When Kari flicked her tongue against her little sister...'s nipples, Crystal trembled, causing the slightest jiggle in her breasts. They weren't big enough to do more than that, but Kari found it exciting all the same."If I had known it was so fun to do this with you, I would have kept you away from Jeff and helped you get over Chad myself," Kari grinned."Well, I'm completely over him now," replied. “Nice home you have here, Mrs. Marrelli. But I feel so formal using your surname. What does your husband call you?”“My name is Nichole.”“No, that wasn’t my question. What does your husband call you?” She looked at me in confused irritation, and I could see her debate what to say.“Well?” I urged, as she tried playing for time by fussing with the coffee cups. I took two short steps closer and she knew she must answer. She turned and blurted out “Niki”.“Ni-ki” I echoed, laboured and slow, in a. .. if I continued with lessons.There was no one waiting at Downtown. I caged a ride with a bus and stepped in my door 10 days after I had left. The wife was sitting at the computer ... in the same place she was sitting when I left.“We need to talk,” I said. I started...When I was through she said, “I can’t leave my mother. She fell and broke her back.”“Where is she?” I asked.“In Oak Ridge.”“Why aren’t you there?”“You know I don’t drive,” she said.“When did she fall?”“Eight days ago,” she. I also have a radio that plays CD’s, tapes and records. Yes, records! I have a bunch of them from my childhood and I love to listen to them while I paint. Especially Leslie Gore, and my best of the sixties and seventies collection. I like that I can shut the door, play my music and enter into a new world. Then I can take that world and put it on canvas to share with the rest of the world. Is this talent? Bringing my vision, my world out were others can see it? I don’t know. But it keeps me.