'That's not fair,' she said. 'You can't ask the same thing twice.'
'Who says?'
'I say.'
'Is it that horrible?'
'What?'
'Whatever your parents did.'
She tried to deflect the question. 'Where'd you get the idea they did something horrible?'
'I've asked you about them before. I've asked you about your childhood, too. You've always avoided those questions. You were very smooth, very clever about changing the subject. You thought I didn't notice, but I did.'
He had the most penetrating stare she'd ever encountered. It was almost frightening.
She closed her eyes so that he couldn't see into her.
'Tell me,' he said.
'They were alcoholics.'
'Both of them?'
'Yeah.'
'Bad?'
'Oh, yeah.'
'Violent?'
'Yeah.'
'And?'
'And I don't want to talk about it now.'
'It might be good for you.'
'No. Please, Tony. I'm happy. If you make me talk about them ... then I won't be happy any more. It's been a beautiful evening so far. Don't spoil it.'
'Sooner or later, I want to hear about it.'
'Okay,' she said. 'But not tonight.'
He sighed. 'All right. Let's see.... Who's your favorite television personality?'
'Kermit the Frog.'
'Who's your favorite human television personality?'
'Kermit the Frog,' she said.
'I said human this time.'
'To me, he seems more human than anyone else on TV.'
'Good point. What about the scar?'
'Does Kermit have a scar?'
'I mean your scar.'
'Does it turn you off?' she asked, again trying to deflect the question.
'No,' he said. 'It just makes you more beautiful.'
'Does it?'
'It does.'
'Mind if I check you out on my lie detector?'
'You have a lie detector here?'
'Oh, sure,' she said. She reached down and took his flaccid prick in her hand. 'My lie detector works quite simply. There's no chance of getting an inaccurate reading. We just take the main plug'--she squeezed his organ--'and we insert it in socket B.'
'Socket B?'
She slid down on the bed and took him into her mouth. In seconds, he swelled into pulsing, rigid readiness. In a few minutes, he was barely able to restrain himself.
She looked up and grinned. 'You weren't lying.'
'I'll say it again. You're a surprisingly bawdy wench.'
'You want my body again?'
'I want your body again.'
