I’m floored we’ve always gotten along with Mary before and now I’m being told that I’m not what she wants for her daughter. I sit there downca...st wondering how my life went straight to shit when a hand on my shoulder snaps me to reality; it’s Kori in her bathrobe with a really sour look on her face. “Mom that is so not funny,” Kori scolds. That’s when Mary and Carl start laugh where they stand or sit. I look up at Mary and she is dying in her chair. I really want to be angry with. “I’ll take you home and fuck you if you let me paint you,” I answered.“You want to paint me?” Juliet said with a little gasp. I could tell that the idea of this was even more arousing to her than my poetry was.“Yes, in every way,” I answered.Juliet was quite surprised when she later learned what “in every way” meant, but she was so aroused and curious that she didn’t hesitate in the least. She merely rose from the table, without another glance at the semicomatose Petey, and preceded me up the. .. like me ... was naked beneath it. I was already guessing that Susan was.We had just finished the first bottle of wine, and I was about to suggest we open another one when Susan pointed over towards my mother. Mom had apparently gone into her "pass out" act there on the large-sized "L" shaped couch we'd been sitting on. She on the short side of it, with my Aunt and I sharing the longer side."I think your mother's had enough. Been a long day for her anyway, and you know she's never been much. .. "please ! ... Take the day off tomorrow," he said. "Stu will be here with you. " With some reservation, I said, "OK. You know, I won't be of much help, if I have to do portables," I said.So , I went home, had dinner, a nap, watched the evening news and returned back to the hospital at midnight. It started as an uneventful shift. I covered the ER work and stayed in the department. Stu did the O.R. case and the 4 portables, 2 in ICU. Around six a.m., the requisitions for the next day.