My father was reading the paper. He glanced up. Mom shook her head and he went back to the paper.Betty had Alexander in her lap. She had a wistful loo...k on her face. Her three kids rushed up to grab me, each calling out, "Daddy."Harry asked, "Did Mommy Two have her baby?" I saw Betty flinch."She's having it now," I told him.'Mommy Two' developed quickly and naturally. The kids were at our house quite a bit. They discovered what I had: Karen's heart was a boundless wellspring of love that was. But then didn’t push it ... didn’t force it ... didn’t demand it.The woman in her loved that honest attention. Men looked at her in the grocery store all the time. She was aware of that. She knew what they were thinking, as they stared at her breasts instead of her face. They weren’t honest about it, though. They made polite conversation, as if they weren’t thinking about her breasts. It was one of the reasons she didn’t trust men.Her conscious mind made a decision, there in the dark. She’d. ."Cal looked back at Fen, a slight tinge of irritation to his steelyglare. "Of course they let her in, you moron! Didn't you see the haloabout her ethereal form?"Fen shrugged. Just then, there was a loud clapping coming from theeast, echoing off the fragmented and decimated walls of the fallenbuildings. "That was quite a show, wasn't it?! WELL DONE!!!" Evanflapped his gigantic leathery wings, his flaming sword hanging limplyin his right hand, his eyes glowing with malice. Frost was at his. I smile and nod, inputting the occasional comment where it seems appropriate, and think that this was hardly my decision, but that my mom had grown tired of her 18 year old son deciding to spend his last summer before college drinking beer, partying, and chasing girls and doing nothing productive so had sent him to spend the summer with his dad up in the mountains.I lived with my dad and Millie quite a lot when I was in my early teens, but after they moved out West I have not seen either of.