Grace shook me, "Answer that."With a groan ... or two or three or six, I got up, padded barefoot down the hall, down the stairs, into the kitchen, got... a drink of water, drank it, picked up the ringing phone and got a dial tone.A quick trip to the bathroom, as quick as a healthy young man with a full bladder can make it. I had just started to pee and the phone started up again."Answer the fucking phone!" hollered Grace.Stopping in mid stream? Not on your life. "I'm busy." God, do I have to do. For the same reason she didn’t blame her father for not making more of an effort to see her. Since the split Zoe’s mother was a different person. The loving, warm woman who loved to bake Oatmeal cookies, color with crayons and never once swore, that woman Zoe knew as her mother was replaced with an empty, cold woman who when she wasn’t furiously angry was an emotionless zombie of a mother. But her mother putting away the alcohol wasn’t the blessing it should have been for Zoe. The bottle had. ”“Please” she said and put her lips on mine again and this time I let her and I think it was because I thought maybe she would be satisfied with that and that would be it, but then she pushed her tongue in my mouth and I let her do that too and her tongue swirled around and my tongue met hers and followed it into her mouth like it had a mind of its own and I still had my hands on her tits and now this young girl that was naked and in love with me was turning me on and I couldn't help it and. ..”“And to try it” Jennifer insisted, looking up from the artifact. “Don’t forget.”“Yeah, and Jennifer wants to ... try something” he grimaced. “I’ve got money. I’d be happy to pay you people for your time, so if there’s someplace we could all just sit down, maybe you could bring her ... something to, uh, taste?”“We have no need for money” said Mali. “Everything we Kagtalik need is here, on our two islands. You are family with us. Stay tonight. We feed you.”Jennifer looked at Ted expectantly..