Trish’s grades, which had already risen after our summer of studying, climbed again. When one of us had dishwashing detail the other would always be... there to help. Friendly hugs were given freely, whether because the recipient looked like they needed it or because the giver just wanted to dish one out. Our standard reply when someone suggested that maybe we were overdoing it became, “Would you rather we were fighting?”In short, we’d each found a new best friend, and we made it a habit to be. " And she held up the belt-looking thing I'd seen before. "Do you know what this is?"I shook my head no."It's a garter belt. It will hold up your stockings. I think you'll like it a lot," she said, and looped it around me, fastening it at the back. The straps dangled down my legs. She walked back to the drawers in the closet. When she returned, she was holding a pair of white stockings, with lace ruffles at the tops."I'll help you put these on -- we don't want to rip them! Come sit on the bed.". On my back in the wet thicket with Ella on top, having had the most amazing sex experience of my life, beautiful emotions and feelings washed over me. A tear fell from my eye, such was the happiness. Nature was with me too. A bushy-tailed squirrel spied down from a treetop on the pair of us, a wood pigeon was cooing and a cuckoo in the distance was calling out. Rain dripped down from the heavens but the clouds were clearing and the sun broke through the branches, the spectacular rays warmed us. He and his father had been gone two days now on a seven-day hunting trip. It wasn't fair that she should be left to handle problems that Dave should have taken care of before he left. Public Service had just notified her that she had forty-eight hours to take care of a past due bill of $235 or they were going to shut off her utilities and all she had was $83 in checking and $74 in cash. It galled her to have to ask Mary Beth for a loan until Dave got home. It probably would have been easier to.