I turned to face the Queen of our school and her royal court, "What?"Our town saw a population explosion around the same time of my birth. The high sc...hool seniors were outnumbered by every other class year. It gave Bailey the votes to be captain of the cheerleading team as a Junior. I wasn't the only outsider who found it amusing to watch the Senior girls tread carefully around her."My shoulder hurts," she told me. I ground my teeth together at the haughtiness in her voice. "Rub it for me."The. I visualized the face of a middle-aged woman with gray-brown hair, wrinkled skin, vacant eyes, a chipped front tooth, and cracked lips formed into an "O" shape, ready to deliver a wad of saliva in my direction.I guess I must have recoiled briefly, because Inez momentarily tightened her grip on my arm. Thankfully, the vision faded from my mind, restoring to my focus the lovely young lady sitting across from me. It was apparent that Inez had concluded that I'd just been haunted by a Julia-related. Looking down the avenue that leads from the hotel down to the bay, she sees what she is looking for. Two huge lit numbers seem to float above the water. Moored at the Navy pier is one of the carriers, in port for Fleet Week festivities. Her presence here, at this time, is not an accident. This is the ship she had been on for her sea tour. She turns the overstuffed side chair around to face the window, and pours herself a tall glass of her berry wine. Sitting down, she stares down at the huge. Knowledge of his fetish had suddenly sexualized him for everyone.I brought my feelings about this up with him one semi-drunken night at a friend’s party. I said I felt like it was an excuse to cheat right in front of me. How would he like it after all if our male friends started coyly showing me their penises and asking my opinion on them?He said it was different, it was all in good fun, it wasn’t sexual for them and he wasn’t even attracted to most of their feet. I called bullshit and he got.