”“My help? You must be ki…”“No, I’m not kidding. You’ll do as we say or else…” He pointed his cell at Melanie and I could tell by th...e expression on her face that she was looking at the picture he had just shown me.Danny motioned to Jenny’s waist and as Penny was getting the second button on her blouse open Melanie couldn’t help but look over at what was happening.Penny couldn’t reach the third button down on Jenny’s blouse because the seat belt covered it. Melanie must have figured out what. "I love you all, but I won't do what you're talking about."Sissy came to me and hugged me, "I'm sorry, Mike. I just love to tease you, and Shirley feels the same, as you can tell. We'll be good, I promise."As Mom walked by, in a low voice she said, "I didn't promise anything, Stud."I broke out laughing because of the absurdity of the way Mom was acting. What a bunch of teases. I loved it.We all cleaned up and had to take the Expedition to church. The kids were put into a class of their age. He had to admit, though, that the feet didn’t turn out to be so bad after all. Reminiscing on the reward he received for doing such a good job of it. He was hoping he’d get something like that today. Just then he heard Emily come bouncing down the stairs.Emily walked promptly into the family room, where she could see Tommy was conveniently waiting. She was wearing a form fitting light gray capri tights, her top just consisted of a comfortable loose white tee-shirt. and she also had a small bag. He made his way up the unhelpful, indeed, impeding dry sand towards the road and the vehicle. His subconscious noted the lack of much damp sand on the beach, indicating either high water, or almost no tides. Could be either, he thought. This was another planet, after all.He suddenly twigged that among these ladies was a man, about ten years older than himself. He looked careful at the man, and noted that he had a woman on each arm, hugging him possessively. Derek found himself relieved that.