Ben was white with shock. Sarah was weeping silently. Ellie knew the first bit but at the mention of the threat her jaw dropped."S-so," went on Tina, ..."I rang the one person I knew who would and could help me and asked him to come and pick me up on Saturday morning at eight." We had a bit of an argument about that," said Christopher picking up the story, "but she wouldn't budge so I decided to do sentry duty until eight. Fat lot of good I was at that. I fell asleep somewhere around three.". You didn't push yourself at me and I liked that.All my other boy friends, all of them, tended to touch first and ask questions later."We both laughed at that as we got to her car. She unlocked the passenger side for me to get in, I reached over and unlocked the driver side.Getting in the car, Kay stared it and we drove off into the early night.I said, "So you thought I would beat you sometime?" There was always that possibility, but I was prepared if you did" Prepared?", I blurted."I'm not a. We stopped talking when someone knocked on the door. We were clean butstill naked so I ran and hid in the bathroom. Al wrapped a towel aroundhimself and opened the door but no one was there only a large gift box. Alopened it and we found two short sets one for each of us with flip flops.Al said, "This stuff must be for us to wear to our spa appointment it mustbe soon."I got my set which was a pink string bikini top, white shorts, whitecotton panties, and matching pink flip flops. Al had denim. The fact of having been raped simply kept most men away from her. I felt that attitude was about as stupid as could be found among all of the human foibles, but I could not change a culture all by myself. In any case, I really enjoyed spending time with Joan, and she seemed to feel the same way about me.By the time supper approached, we were sitting in the veranda swing as close together as two humans could get without merging skin. I found myself happier than I had been since long before I.