Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:08:01 -0800 (PST) From: Joe Parker Subject: I think I'm in trouble. Part 1, Chapter 13 I THINK I'M IN TROUBLE Part I Chapter 13 (Jake) 'When the Savior calls, I will answer, 'When He calls for me I will hear, 'When the Savior calls, I will answer, 'I'll be somewhere list'ning for my name' The singing sure sounds a lot sweeter with the Jarrows here. Like wow it's way better! Ever since Miss Carol got rid of that ratchety old organ, things have been quite a bit better at church. At 90 years old Mrs Honeyfellow is the oldest person in the congregation except for Miss Carol and she plays at the speed of paint drying. I'm just so glad her arthritic fingers finally won the battle. I know I'm mean for saying that and I need to repent etc but I can't help it, at least I'm in the right place. The main thing I think about every Sunday is how am I gonna stop myself from being so bad all the time. I know I have a lousy attitude and I have to work on conquering my natural urge to attempt worldwide domination, wreaking havoc and causing unprecedented mayhem. I pray to God to make me be nice, smile more, say please and thank you and all that. I pray that He will stop me from tapping my foot the moment 99.9% of everybody opens their damn fat mouths. I pray that I will keep my own nasty thoughts to myself and let other people be as lame and as stupid as they wanna be. I must be doing something wrong, I somehow manage to end up at exactly the same spot every Sunday. All these things I pray each week and fail within minutes of the sermon ending. Sometimes even before the sermon ends depending on whose turn it is to preach. We don't have full time preachers here, it's shared around. I notice they have never asked me... When I was a kid I truly thought that the reason I had to be quiet during sermon was because other people were trying to sleep... it sure sounded like it. I do listen though, contrary to popular belief and I do believe that God does have a purpose for me. I think He wants me to own people and give them the smackdown for being so clueless all the time. Hey! - the 'Avenging Angel' had to start somewhere you know! Henry Taylor preached from the Book of Luke today, about how Jesus was having dinner with a 'wise man' and this prostitute chick barged into his house uninvited and washed Jesus feet with her hair, I guess that's why chicks have long hair.., ick! The wise guy tested Jesus and questioned Jesus authority since He let a whore wash His feet, surely the 'Son of Man' would not let social filth near Him? Then Jesus totally like owned him.., He told that parable about the creditor who had two debtors, one owed him maybe $50 bucks and the other owed him thousands, but neither of them could cough up. The creditor writes off both their debts Jesus asked the wise dude, 'Which of the debtors would be MOST grateful?' Wise guy answers logically - 'The one who owed the most' I really got this lesson eh.., that broad was the town whore, she was dirt, filth and she came to the house of one of the elite and gave honor to a guy that was soon to die for all their sins. She upstaged the host in his own house and taught him an object lesson. There are elements of today's society which are treated like filth eh. The breeders do all they can to make others feel bad about themselves and they skewer pure religion to do so. But anyway, I ain't no political commentator and I ain't the preacher either so I'll just go back to doing what has been so entertaining for the past 30 minutes. Watching Felix. I do like how cute Felix looks today. He has combed his hair out straight instead of the usual gelled spiky look and he looks totally adorable. He's wearing a white shirt with a red tie and khakis that show off his ass to perfection, does he know that?. He looks at me and blushes, my heart skips a beat, he is my honey. If I am the Avenging Angel, then he is the other one - the nice one -- whatever his name is... Lets just call him the nice, Sexy Angel. I know I really shouldn't be having these thoughts in this place but like I said, I'm a sinner - I am here to find absolution. This is the first time the Jarrow's have worshipped with us. They have been going to the local strychnine and snake-charmer church down the road but Miss Carol invited them to join us here at our undenominational church and well, here they are. I'm glad, I don't want Felix to get bitten by some manky snake! I don't have enough faith for that. And as for drinking poison? Well this ain't Romeo & Juliet. I got into trouble in english class last year for writing that Romeo & Juliet was 'The Greatest Suicide Pact of all time' even if they were meant to fake it, they were still successful or is that unsuccessful - shrug. And like DAMN! - wasn't he like 14 and she was 12?..., DAMN! Naturally Jessica got the highest mark on that assignment for her 'Romeo & Juliet - the Greatest Love story ever told' crap.., grrrrrrr I was robbed. Well anywaaaaay.., as I was saying, the Jarrow's sure sing purdy, they listen for the gaps and fill them creating a seamless harmonized sound that has really improved our singing. They tell me that my Mom was in another league, that she was able to capture, hold and transport anybody who listened to her ethereal voice. I have been encouraged to sing a little louder adding my bass baritone to the alto of Momma Felix', Uncle Gary and Grandpa Jarrow's deep bass voices, and Granny Jarrow's mezzo soprano. Felix has that same light as air tenor that I heard the other day when I sneaked up on him and the kids. He wants to get together later on this afternoon and mess around a little with him on guitar and me at the piano. I wanna get together too, but it doesn't involve guitars or piano's! I start to bone up and my mouth goes dry, I lean forward and take my suit coat off, placing it over my lap which looks like there's a popcorn party going on inside. I look around guiltily and SNAP! Felix' eagle eyes are on my crotch, all glazed over.., mouth hanging open. I grin and lean back placing myself on display again, all guilt forgotten. Felix begins swallowing rapidly and he wipes his forehead with his handkerchief. Hmmmph, interesting. And then my eye is caught by my old friendly rival Mark Fisher who I must admit cuts a dashing figure when he's all doxied up, not that I'd ever wanna go there, and besides - what the hell is he doing here? He's meant to be a heathen, a non believer, his ancestors were the monkeys. He has that annoying knowing look on his face as he mouths the words "You dirty boy!" to me. I just smirk and let my eyes travel over to the whole reason his skanky ass showed up today. What is 5'10", has long blonde hair and the most exclusive rack this side of Hooterville? Yeah I think you get the picture. Mark's eyes follow mine and he starts glowing a very sinful shade of penitent pink. Yeah, guilty as charged. It's an unusual little churchbuilding coz the seating is arranged in a U-shape so everybody faces one another. Some people find it quite confronting and don't like it. I rather enjoy it, it's nice to see all the faces playing at being good folks for an hour or so. I tried for two whole weeks to be good, to get myself right in the head so that I could go and present a new me, a better me to my Felix. After that wonderful/horrible first afternoon up at my house I knew it was time for a major overhaul. I knew that if I was to have what my heart screamed out for, I was going to have to put some things to bed in my life. I look over at Jessica, so serene, so wholesome, almost majestic. My advice to any guy that gets a chance to have a girl like her would be to not let go, ever! Any guy but me that is. I hope this puts into perspective somewhat the way I feel about Felix.., the way I value him. When I was 12 - Dad, on one of his rare visits to the outside world, took me to London and one of the places we went to see was the Crown Jewels in that Tower place. He was fiddly and paranoid all trip long but even his irksomeness wasn't enough to distract me from the wonder of that incredible royal regalia. Even the 9 strong security team and all the other hanger-oners that surrounded us like a forest... Even they were forgotten when my 12 year old eyes beheld those gem encrusted golden crowns. And what was I thinking? I was thinking 'By Jove! - Jessica is like this! She is like the Crown Jewels of England!' After that trip across Britain and Europe I would return home and ask Jess to become my girlfriend. I didn't know much but I knew that she was something extremely costly and precious beyond measure. And though so many of my thoughts and views have changed since then.., that 12 year old realization remains the same for me today. And I will tell you now that it will never change. And what about Felix? Well you see this is the thing. If Jessica is the Crown Jewels, then Felix is the spirit of what makes them so precious in the first place. I can't help it, to my mind he just supersedes all past precedents. If she ever deigns to give Mark even half a chance, he will be the luckiest breeder in the world. The way I treated her and Felix that afternoon was unconscionable and I felt/feel dreadful. I knew I had to make it up to them both. I began with Jess. I wrote her a 9 page letter. Not e-mail, no text message but a letter. She made it absolutely clear that she did not want to see me or talk to me about this. It was over and that was that. So I wrote her this letter and I poured my heart into it. I admitted my guilt in the whole messing around with Felix thing. I wrote that I was the one who instigated it and I begged her not to take it out on him. I praised her for her nobility of spirit and for the amazing love she had given to me, undeserving as I have always been. She came down to me in our relationship, it wasn't me who had to make sacrifices and overlook serious character flaws. I implored her to remain my friend because even though I ruined everything, I still needed her counsel, her genuine class but most of all her priceless friendship. To have a friend like Jess is to have a lifetime of sparkling support. Finally I threw in a good word for Mark (lol), yes I wrote that although she may not be interested in what's out there right now, I knew of one guy in particular who would give anything to have a shot at catering to her in the way that I had failed to. All in all I thought it was quite a well written read if don't say so myself, especially for the likes of me. I knew she would never write back or even mention it - that's Jess for you. But the softening in her sapphiric eyes was enough to tell me she had taken heart from the letter and while she still kept her distance, I knew things would thaw eventually. I was glad. She's totally ignoring Mark though, she won't be ready to consider another relationship for a long time. But Mark can handle that. I have always been envious of the cool, calm and collected way he does everything. He is good at everything he does but what he excels at is communication and managing people. I am good at that also but they all hate me afterwards.., with Mark they all love him and would follow him to the ends of the Earth. Daddy says he would make a good politician, but I think he's too honest to ever be one. Good luck to him. Suddenly - speak of the devil, Dad leans over, hooks me by the shoulder and draws me into his side. To anyone else it just looks like he is being fatherly and showing some affection, but I know better. "Pull your head in son," he whispers in my ear. "Quit all the shuffling and pay attention to the lesson. We have important visitors here today and I need you to behave please" he kisses me behind my ear and I rest my head on his shoulder. Phew it wasn't so bad after all and I WAS listening to the lesson! I even told you about it didn't I? See? - I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. I squirm indignantly and get a poke in the ribs from my father. I sit still and once again my mind wanders off into Felixland. For two weeks I did my best to avoid him. Do you realize how tough that was? Holding my breath for two weeks would have been easier. Having to see him at school was awful. Visiting each others houses was worse. And he looked so sad and miserable and it was all because of stupid me. I would cry myself to sleep every night thinking of the wrongs I have committed against him. Traditionally I have only really cried coz I felt sorry for myself, but these tears were wetter, they were not selfish, and they just hurt more. I would curl up in a ball every night, hug my pillow and bawl my eyes out until an unsettled but thankfully dreamless sleep finally claimed me. Eventually I was losing so much sleep that I went and found Mr Wolfy, my childhood security toy. I held him close to me, his one remaining eye and doggy smile comforting me through the subsequent lonely nights. One day I just snapped Dad and I were visiting Momma Felix' and Lenore had been teasing me mercilessly all afternoon. I stormed out of the room and caught none other than Felix snooping around and spying on me! His eyes went wide and I felt my heart trying to make its way up my throat willing me to grab him and love him. I couldn't hold off any longer. I picked him up and we ended up in the bathroom, I was delirious at the mere touch of him and I was gonna ravish him right there, have my way with him right there! I know I made stupid threats about Mark but that was my desperation talking. I seemed to recoup strength in those few delicious moments that I held him. I trapped him close to me, right up against me, letting him know just what he could do to me. I soaked up all the sweet smelling, wonderful goodness of him. He made every part of me feel good, even my ears felt good! I told him that I love him... his reaction just made me love him even more. He's such a dufus haha, he seems to have a habit of missing the forest for all the trees. I tell him something Jessica has never heard and he totally misses it the first time round. He does pick it up on the second thought - there's hope for him yet. The realization of what I have just intimated to Felix is not lost on me. I know full well what I have said and I know what it means. I am madly in love with Felix Jarrow. I love him in a place where neither time nor space exist . It's a forever kind of love, people can scoff and laugh but do they have what I have? It's my first time, I don't have to wonder about it anymore. I have love for the first time in my life, the way is clear and in my mind it's just him and me. I can see in his eyes that he loves me. Do you know what that does to me? How that makes me feel? He can say whatever the hell he likes but his eyes don't lie. When he looks at me I know that it's true. He loves me too. Every moment he is with me I can feel him slowly leaving behind his old life, his former bonds, his childhood. He is beginning to identity himself with me - as a new being. He is no longer Felix, Kathleen's child. He is Felix, Jake's lover. He is gonna be the love of my life. I am so overwhelmed by these feelings that I have to leave him standing there my intended actions unfinished. I race outside, run down to the end of Cross Street and call up top for a car. I wait till I'm home before I call Daddy and tell him I went home sick. He sounds dubious.., "This doesn't have anything to do with Felix right?" I need to tread carefully here, "No Dad I got a tension headache from school today, I just wanna lie down" "Well alright then, I just find it interesting that your little buddy here has also gone to bed with a headache, I inhale sharply, my baby isn't feeling well? Dads voice jolts me back to awareness, "What did you two do at school today? - knock heads?" "Ummm no nothing like that, I'm gonna go lie down now okay Daddy?" "Hmmm okay son I will come and check on you later alright?" "Yup" - He tells me he loves me and hangs up. I don't have the energy to leap onto my custom made kingsize bed, I just flop onto it and sigh. It's amazing how changed Dad is, I don't know for sure but I think he is really serious about exploring the possibilities between him and Momma Felix'. He no longer seems so old to me. He walks different haha. He walks a lot more like me, like a stud heh. He is brighter, more chirpy, and he dresses more sexily than I've ever seen lol. I am almost starting to see some of the things other people profess to see in my Dad.., almost. One thing that impresses me about Dad is the fact that he doesn't act stupid and silly around Momma Felix'. Apart from that very first day when he was an absolute retard, he's been totally suave. That's not to say that he isn't a dork any longer haha coz he is. But not around her. It seems I have a lot to learn. *** I am amazed at how easily my grandparents get on with people from different backgrounds. They just start chatting and before you know it they are friends, swapping recipes, discussing the weather and shooting the breeze. They greeted the Senior Jarrows warmly at church and had them sit with them and Miss Carol down the front. Miss Carol wept when they met her and she held hands with Granny Jarrow throughout Worship. I can tell they are all a little overwhelmed being up top, that includes Felix and his Mom too. Only the kids seem to feel completely at ease unlike their bewildered father. This is Uncle Gary's first time up top and he is mighty impressed and keeps shaking his head. He's the most practical guy I've ever met, and I bet he's just perplexed at the way things are up here. He probably can't see the need for most of what he sees. He and I have spent some time together in recent days and I really really like him. First thing he asked me was do I know how to hunt, fish and shoot. He was really pleased when I nodded in the affirmative. Dad and I go out perhaps 30 times a year, maybe more - using crossbow and rifles. I was surprised when he said that he and Felix would take Daddy and I back to their favorite hunting spots in Kentucky some day. I don't know why but I was kinda surprised at learning that Felix was an accomplished outdoorsman. I said that I looked forward to pitting myself against him and Uncle Gary laughed cryptically and ruffled my hair.., adults are so weird. Clearly there were many levels to this strange and wonderful creature called Felix. These thoughts reminded me of when he and I played basketball just the other day. Although he is an evil little cheater, he's got game and I was taken with the shooting, ballskills and athleticism he displayed. Hmmph he was almost as good as me even! But his strategic decisions left a lot to be desired. I was a fair and considerate player the other day, he couldn't stand to lose so he cheated blatantly! He even ran away immediately after that jerkweed Junior consummated their unholy act at the other end of the court. Both of them running off like that was tacit proof of their guilt as far as I was concerned. Junior whined that he ran off coz I would have killed him otherwise. Well that's a dirty lie! I was only gonna question them both that's all. Felix claims that I said I was gonna kill him too, I don't recall saying anything of the sort. At first when he scrambled up the tree I thought I had him. I went to climb up and the cunning little livewire tried to squish my precious fingers. We ended up in somewhat of a Mexican stand off him being all hysterical up the tree and me stationed beneath, rationally and calmly trying to talk him down from there. I was seriously thinking about calling for the men in white coats, the way he was hollering and gesticulating up there. Then he picked some debris out of my hair and it all went straight to hell from there. My grievances were immediately forgotten the moment his exquisite, enormous eyes honed in and locked on to mine. I wanted him out of that tree and in my arms right there and then, and seconds later I had my wish. I carried my baby to the truck and I did not give a flying f..., uh damn who saw me either. I asked him to be my boyfriend and he was overjoyed at the idea and then we went back to his house. We did sinful things to one another and I showed him as much as I could that I was totally and completely comfortable with him. I wanted him to know he could touch me, feel me and love me any way he wanted to. I think I surprised him there.., "Jake, Jake!.., Jake???" I look up at the sound of my baby's questioning voice. "Sweety you ain't listenin to a word I'm sayin are ya!" He says and I nod my head slowly, transfixed by the sight of his pink lips moving. We are in the Music Room and he and I have been messing around on the grand piano and his guitar. We've both been shamelessly showing off to one another too and we are both liking what we hear. Felix does all the singing coz I am still too self conscious to sing in front of him. I just play along obediently trying to follow the music he is playing and singing so sweetly. He has an awesome voice. Like honey and sunlight. It's making me hard, I can't help it. I guess this is not the reaction he wants me to have to his singing but I just cannot control myself. My voice is all husky when I ask, "Felix uh, lets uh go up to my bed - I mean my room and umm take a nap or something" He smiles brilliantly and waves his finger in my heated face. "Y'alls want me up in y'alls bed huh?" "Unnh huh" "To nap you say" He runs his finger along the line of my jaw. "Nah aah! - I mean uh huh, if you want" He lets out this low laugh and it makes me so hot! "Mmmmm I'm kinda tired too sweety" He's taken to calling me his sweety, I kinda really like it. We take the main elevator up to my quarters. Felix holds my hand all the way, it feels great. "Jake can you show me round this place some time?" he asks. "Sure thing, but not right now baby" We kiss slowly and my hands go around his back, his slide up around my shoulders. DING! The doors open to the Ante-room and then the main entrance to my quarters. Felix keys the pin number into the keypad (he likes doing this for some reason), and we are in. We kiss and do this kind of shuffle dance all the way to the bed, tongues swirling hands traveling each others bodies. He fits so perfectly into me, he maybe smaller than me but he's all man. He yields at times and then at other times he is clearly on the prowl. He he excites me beyond imagining and I mean that too. Not even in my fertile imagination can I equal the sum total of everything that is Felix. Somehow I have missed the part where we landed on my bed but here we are. He's on top of me, grinding away hehe. He makes these little purring sounds that I love. He's my cute little kitten. He's lying on top of me gyrating his hips into mine slowly, seductively, our tongues swirling in a passionate tango of wills.., dueling for ascendancy. My hands roam over his jeans clad ass, I been thinking about this ass all day long! Ever since I saw him in those khakis this morning. He has changed into these hot CK jeans but for now they're just in my way. I signal to him with a double hump morse code kind of message and he gets it. I love how in tune we are. He raises up a little and pulls his t-shirt off while I undo the snap of his jeans and slide the zipper down. It's not easy when he's hard as steel. He flops over onto his butt, cradled in my arms and I run my hands down to the flaps of his jeans and pull them down over his strong lengthy legs. Licking his neck and smelling his glorious hair. His snowy white boxers are distended with the clear and undeniable evidence of his reaction to me. I'd like to think that I'm the only one who will ever make him feel this good. I'm determined for that to always be the case. I begin ticking his heavy ballsac and he lifts up with a languorous groan, "Ohhhh Jake what's that you doin?" "You know what I'm doing baby" "Mmmmmhhmm I can't take it Jake" I've now slipped his boxers down his thighs to join his jeans and he kicks both of them off in a frantic caterpillar like movement. I laugh and he turns his head snuggling into me. We kiss as we undulate to a slow, ancient, primal tune that only we can hear (but I'm sure everybody knows it). Our hearts are the drums, our breathing is the horn section, his fingers pluck the strings and mine play the keyboard of his passion and his yearning. His penis is a real beauty, long slender, smooth and brimming with life (literally lol), just like it's master. Kissing him has distracted me and I see that he's got his hands around his own cock. I growl and shoo them away, I don't want nobody's hands on him but mine - not even his own. He chuckles and rolls over again so he is straddling me. My hands are still on him, one wrapped round his cock, thumb sliding over the corona of his maleness, the other stroking the underside of his silky hairless balls. He makes me release him for a moment to take my top off. My hands seem to scream in protest and quickly return to their quarry at the first opportunity. He then unsnaps my own jeans and peels them off me. I laugh at the look on his expressive face, it's like he's unwrapping a gift at Christmas. Maaan this is gonna be an awesome Christmas this year! He discards my own boxers, nice conservative churchgoing plaid today. I don't really wanna face the Lord in some sexy little number you know. Even I have some scruples. "Wait, sec baby" I lean over to my right bedstand and produce some KY jelly. He sees it and lets out a musical laugh that rushes straight from my dick to my heart and then back again. "Woah Jake you naughty boy!" "All the better to uh grease you with" I stumble over my words as my lubed up fingers find his ass and spread his cheeks. His eyes pop and he groans appreciatively, spreading his legs and letting my finger circle his tight ass hole. He starts wriggling and mewling in that kitten voice again and it's driving me nuts. Speaking of which his hand has found my nuts and the KY and he is giving my balls the inspection of their lifetime! His other hands is milking my joystick and I'm not gonna last long. Even sexually we are so in tune slithering along together in syncopated rhythm. "Mmmbaby" he says panting as my finger slides in and out of his core. "Put your dick there" Now it's my turn to pop my eyes out... "Whha-what? - you wanna go there" My cock has just boned up more than it's ever been. I hope he doesn't look down at it, he might change his mind. "Naw I just wanna feel it rubbing against the outside of me" I'm not disappointed, I'm kinda glad actually, I'm still not ready to go all the way and we only have another hour till dinner, I would like to have lots of time for this. But I have no hesitation in placing my raging cock right there at his back door! We make that vital connection and he starts writhing all over my manhood and squealing. I can't believe it, does it feel that good? I'm gonna cum crazy with him bouncing away like that! I'm not even inside him and it all just feels so gooood! My hands latch onto his dick like magnets and he screams as I stroke his supersensitive cock to an enormous ejaculation. "Arrrrrrghh dammit!" he screams as he shoots all over me. I was only a second behind creaming his wonderfully reactive hole and everything around it and especially below it. I've got cum all over my dick and balls. He's laughing now and I join him. He lays down on me and we kiss and laugh, laugh and kiss, laugh and laugh and kiss and kiss. I'm not sure why we're laughing really but I am sure why we are kissing. We are happy, we are making each other feel good and we are in love. Do we need any other reason to kiss or even to laugh? - that would be a nope. "Felix baby, you ever had a jacuzzi?" "Naw" - He's so cute, I kiss him again long and slow, my finger returns to his hole and we both quickly bone up again - recovered already. "Well lets uh rinse off quickly in the shower and then jump in the tub okay?" "Uh huh" He's now rubbing his body frantically on mine making sure to get my finger as deep inside him as it will go. I oblige and stroke his inner nut till he and I both explode again. We never did make it to the jacuzzi that day, we ran out of time, it was Felix' fault.., he's just insatiable and who am I to deny him? We got to the shower for our 'quick rinse' and he was ready to go again. He jumped up into my arms, wrapped his arms and legs around me and we ground each other to our third climax in 30 minutes. After that we only had 29 minutes before dinner and there was no way we wanted to try Dads patience again. Dinner was wonderful, it was no banquet - our guests felt enough out of place as it was. To have too formal a dinner would be to isolate them. They lit the fire in the Great Conservatory and we had dinner out there with starlight above and a chilling wind howling through the mountains around us. But we were toasty warm and well fed. There was cobb salad, roast beef and potatoes with yorkshire pudding and green beans. I enjoyed it all especially the scallop pie and miners treacle tart with french vanilla icecream for dessert. Felix and I ate the house down and as we sat next to one another sipping our iced pineapple juice we chatted a little about how things went this weekend. Since the basketball game everything had worked like a charm. Meeting my grandfolks was amazing, connecting through them back to my mother was even more amazing. But having Felix there loving me, talking to me, smiling at me - nothing compares to this. My Dad is happy, Felix' Mom is happy, my Grandparents are really happy and it's clear they and Dad have been in serious discussion this afternoon with Uncle Gary, Momma Felix' and my Jarrow Grandfolks. I would have liked to have been there to listen but uh.., well Felix and I - we were otherwise engaged. Miss Carol rocks away in her rocking chair. She has also been rather preoccupied today as well, with the kids. With the help of one of the younger staff ladies she seems to have thoroughly enjoyed herself looking after the kids. And watching them now sleeping peacefully tucked safely under her huge old arms takes me back. I envy them. In all their future travels, they will find few places as safe as where they are right now. Felix has placed his right hand on my chair, on the arm rest. I smile at my baby and place my left hand right next to his, just barely touching. He glances at our hands and then shyly smiles back at me blushing slightly. I bite my lower lip and tell him.., "I love you Felix" "I love you too Jacob" I hope that he always will. *** (Miss Carol) Well, I ain't de only one who see those fingahs entwined ovah there! The boys Momma notices also, Mothers always do. Somin else been on my mind more an that though! At church today I felt an evil presence. Somebody who came but not stay... It be a woman that I can tell and she were down the back but I can-not see that far no mo. She sure leave quick like and she ain't happy, she wish ill upon us all. Yes Lord, I hear you.., I live for reasons I do not know but I live yet longer still. Till this here lil child restin on me is growed up nuff to carry on I must abide a lil while longer. "Speak Lord sssspeak" she mutters to herself as she rocks the slumbering babies. Miss Carol kisses the chosen child, and thinks about how old she will be before the child is old enough. *****************************************************