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sighed.
Gracefully gliding down the stairs to the door, she gave her hair one final touch up before opening the
door. Larry was standing in front of the two other people, and as soon as he saw his wife, he gave a little
whistle and nodded slightly to her, indicating his approval of her attire. Walking into the living room, he
was followed by a man and a woman.
"Honey," said Larry, turning to the couple behind him, "I'd like you to meet Roy and his wife, Susan.
People, this is Ann."
Roy's eyes were fixed on the nearly exposed breasts of Larry's wife, and Ann could feel a little shiver
run along her spine as she watched him lewdly smile, as though he were stripping her with his cues and
loving what he saw. As Larry walked from the living room to the dining room, Ann followed. somewhat
glad to be away from Roy's lewd stare. She wished she had worn something a little less revealing, but it
was too late to change anything now, and besides, she thought to herself, she was probably imagining
things. Susan was hardly a woman to be snubbed for her lack of beauty. A shade taller than Ann, she
wore her bright red hair very well, and her dress was even more revealing than Ann's, the plunging
neckline cutting her black velvet gown nearly in half, and the inner slit ran all the way from her ankles to
the middle of her thigh. It was much tighter on her than Ann's was, and Ann finally realized that Roy must
have been looking at her out of appreciation, much the same way Larry was gazing at Susan now.
"As soon as Karen and David come down," said Ann to break the ice, "we can eat."
"You have two children living here?" asked Roy, removing his eyes from Ann's curvaceous body and
lighting a cigarette. "Larry told me that you only had a son."
"Karen is my niece," offered Larry. "She's going to the college in the fall, and she asked if she could stay
here, with us until school began. We saw no reason not to have her here. After all," he said, lighting a
cigarette of his own, "this house is pretty big."
As soon as he finished explaining, David and Karen bounded into the dining room, and the six of them
sat down to eat.
* * *
"Dinner was absolutely superb," said Roy as he pushed his chair away from the table in total satisfaction.
"Thank you," said Ann, lowering her head and blushing at the compliment.
"It sure was, Mom," offered David. "I don't think I could eat another bite. May I be excused?"
"Where are you going, son?" asked Larry, aware of David's hostility toward him.
"Oh, I thought I might go outside and run around, try to work off all this food," answered David in a tone
of friendliness that surprised both Ann and Larry. Perhaps the boy was beginning to accept his
step-father after all.
"Okay, David," said Ann. "Don't stay out too late."
"May I be excused too, Mrs. Dolan?" Karen asked. "I think it might be nice to go running with David."
"Well-l-l," said Roy, "the two younger people want to be alone. Well, let me tell you, there's nothing like
a night to go walking in."
"We'll be running," said David, hardly able to control his embarrassment.
"Of course, David," said Roy. "Well, Karen, you don't let him run too fast."
Karen winked at the guest and walked out of the room behind David. As soon as they were out of the
house, Ann looked to Larry.
"I don't think I like the idea of the two of them being alone together," she said.
"Aww, come on, honey," soothed Larry as he stood up from the table.
"Young people have to get their fun too, you know."
"That's right, Ann," said Susan. "After all, David is becoming a young man. It's high time he took an
interest in the opposite sex."
"I ... I guess I still think of him as my little baby," stammered Ann.
"Hey, everybody," said Larry in a jubilant voice. "Who wants to see some of the movies we took while
Ann and I were on our honeymoon?
"Oh, now really, Larry," said Ann as she cleared off the table. "I'm sure that they would be bored by our
home movies."
'Quite the contrary, Ann," volunteered Roy, "we would very much like to see them."
"There, you see," said Larry. "Come on. You can do the dishes later.
Besides, you haven't seen them either, honey."
The idea of washing the dishes was hardly welcome to Ann, and it was true that she hadn't seen them.
She walked into the living room and sat between Roy and Susan while Larry set up the screen and
projector. Turning out the lights, he sat next to Susan and prepared to watch.
* * *
"Hey, where ya goin'?" asked David in a whisper as he followed Karen to a window against the living
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