----- A little argument at the lake

The weather was warming up -- it was even warmer than yesterday -- and the sun was out. We dropped Chloe off at work and spent some time walking around by the lake again. Cindy wanted to take her top off outside. Yep, big surprise.

"It's still cold, Cindy. It's in the fifties."

"It's going to be in the sixties."

"The low sixties."

"The sun's out. It'll feel nice. Join me, Sam."

"No. it's too cold."

"What about you, Gail?"

"Mmmm, no."

"Zoe?"

"I don't think so."

"That leaves you, Julie."

"Sorry, Cindy. I don't want the stares."

"Implying I don't get stares?"

"I thought you liked it that way?"

"Ok, guilty as charged. But why would you even care, Julie?"

"Everyone is already staring. I don't want to give them any more reasons."

"They can't help it, Julie. Nobody can miss you in a crowd." I chuckled. She didn't seem too amused.

"Well, they can certainly miss you in a crowd."

"What?"

"They can hardly see you."

"I'm not that small."

"Really, Sam. You're about as unnoticeable as they get."

"Gee, thanks." I said, using the most sarcastic tone I could. "I've always been unnoticeable, okay. Bigger people ignore me all the time. You could be a little more sympathetic. You were once pretty short yourself."

"It's not my fault you're short."

"Are you implying that it's my fault?"

"You didn't have to sleep with that girl, Sam."

Wow, that hurt. Zoe and I looked at each other. We both knew who Julie was talking about.

"I didn't know she had the virus, Julie. How could anyone know?"

"Evidently, Samantha and Zoe did."

Zoe put her head down. That hurt her too.

"I'd still be small even if I didn't catch this disease, Julie."

"But you'd be a lot taller if you hadn't fooled around."

"I didn't fool around."

"You fooled around on me."

"I did not. Why do you think we broke up in high school?"

"You broke it up. Not me."

"Because I was going to the other side of the country. We couldn't have a long distance relationship."

"Because you wanted to fool around."

"Okay. I admit it: I wanted to ... to ..."

"To fool around."

"Fine. To fool around. But when I needed you there at school would you have come?"

"Maybe."

"And how would you have even afforded the trip?"

"I don't know."

"Right. See, it wouldn't have worked."

"Yet, here we are."

"Yes, here we are. Even after the fooling around and everything."

"But you'd be bigger if you hadn't fooled around, Sam."

"I'd still be a whole lot shorter than you are now -- not much difference to you at your current size, wouldn't you say? And what about you? How many people did you sleep around with between high school and when we got back together?"

"That's not the point. I didn't catch a venereal disease. We're talking about you."

"I give up." I said, throwing my hands up in the air. "You're right. I shouldn't have slept with anyone during my time away. I deserve anything bad that I get. Satisfied?"

"No."

"Well then I don't know what to say, Julie. You should have spoken about this earlier if you're going to hold a grudge about it."

"I'm not holding a grudge."

"You sound like it."

"Maybe you're just feeling guilty."

"I'm not feeling guilty. If anything, I feel pretty good about myself. I'm not the one who's trying to make others feel bad about themselves."

"Cut it out, you two!" Cindy finally said, obviously having had enough with Julie and my little, um, conversation. "Didn't you two just make up not long ago?"

"Did they have a fight?" Gail asked.

"Yes, Gail. We did." I said. "But I thought we were over that. We are, aren't we, Julie?"

"Yeah." Julie said. "So go ahead and tell her, Sam. I know you want to gloat."

"Holy shit, Julie. No, I don't care to tell her about it or to gloat. What's put a burr up your ass?"

"Nothing."

"Look, I'm sorry for what happened before when I was away at school. I'm paying the price."

"I'm sorry you're shrinking too, Sam."

"I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about missing you while we were apart. If I had to do it all over again I'd have gone to school locally and we could have stayed together."

"Do you really mean that?"

"Of course I do."

"Then I'm sorry, Sam."

"Next time, let's talk this over privately. Okay?"

"I just ..."

"What?"

"I talked with Jill last night. I'm not in a good mood. That's all."

"There's something between you two that's hurting your relationship, isn't there?"

"You have no idea."

"Wanna tell us about it?"

"No!"

"Fine. But you two really need to resolve this matter."

"I don't want to talk about it."

"You should."

"I can't. Not with all of you."

"Then do it with Jill."

"I can't."

"Why not?"

"I can't tell you why."

I rolled my eyes.

"This is getting nowhere, Julie. Ok, tell you what everyone; let's go take one of the trails that lead through the woods this time. It's a nice enough day."

"A hike?" Zoe asked.

"Yeah."

"A naked hike?" Cindy asked excitedly.

"NO!" we all shouted in unison.

Julie walked pretty fast. I tried to keep up but had to run. At least I was getting exercise. The others were left behind.



----- A path rarely taken

"Wait up, Julie."

"Can't you keep up?"

"For every step you take I have to take three."

"But you can move your legs faster."

"I go less with each step."

"Do you want me to slow down for you?"

"Yes."

"Okay. I'll slow it down."

"What about the others?"

"Maybe I just want to be alone."

"Do you want me to fall back with the others?"

"I don't know."

"While we're alone, would you like to talk to me about what's between you and Jill?"

"No, Sam."

"Ok, let's stop here. Sit down." We were facing each other with me sitting on a rock and Julie leaning up against a tree. She didn't want to sit. I had to look up. Way up.

"I can't talk to you about it, Sam. End of story."

"How about with Gail? She's kind of the outside one here. Sometimes it's easier to talk with someone on the outside."

"I don't think so."

"Is this about me then?"

"Let's talk about something else. Please."

"Alright, fine. How about Gail?"

"What about her do you want to talk about?"

"Are you ok with her staying with us? I know I didn't ask you, I just invited her -- actually demanded that she stay over."

"It's ok. It's your house."

"Don't feel that way. It's yours too. You're more than a guest, Julie. I only did that with Gail because of the circumstances. It's kind of a dire matter."

"I know. I have no problem with it. Just the opposite. I'd have insisted you invite her to stay if you hadn't. Unless there's a better way to protect her that we don't know about."

"She could stay with Jill at your mom's house."

"I didn't think of that."

"I don't know how your mother would feel about it but I'm pretty sure Jill would look after her."

"She would."

"Gail and Jill get along pretty good too."

"I know. Do you think we're keeping them apart by keeping Gail with us?"

"No. I mean, she's free to leave."

"You were pretty adamant about her staying."

"That's because I was so concerned about her safety. I want to invite Jill to come over to the house. She's been avoiding us, me in particular, ever since, well, ever since Samantha uh, passed away."

"I know."

"Is she avoiding me or you?"

"Don't ask me that."

"Alright. You know, even sitting up on this rock my eyes are only level with your knee. And you're not even standing straight up. How did you get so damn tall?"

"I don't really know, Sam? It was dad."

"And damn that inversion table. You like it though, don't you?"

"Yes. Do you like being small?"

"No. Hell no. I've been small all my life. It truly sucks. Why would I like it?"

"You have lots of little friends."

"So? Do you know what the worst part of being small is?"

"I think so, at least from your perspective."

"What?"

"You hate that people don't take you serious. They don't listen to what you have to say."

"Bingo! But you know what?"

"What?"

"I don't seem to have that problem any more. Not much. Not with my newest friends and the new job."

"No?"

"You listen. Most of the time anyway, maybe not all the time. And all my new little friends listen. That's the most satisfying thing about having all these new friends."

"All your girlfriends."

"Oh shut up. You know what Jenn at work calls them?"

"What?"

"My little harem."

Julie laughed.

"Don't laugh, Julie. I don't care much for the term."

"You should. Did you ever think you'd be sleeping around with a bunch of girls."

"Never. But there you go again saying I'm fooling around."

"I said you were sleeping around. There's a difference."

"There is?"

"Yes. I know about it this time."

"So, if I had told you about the girls I slept with back in college it would be sleeping around and not fooling around and that would be ok?"

"No."

"I'm thoroughly confused now."

"You're a guy."

"Yes, I am, thank you."

"You wouldn't understand."

"Obviously, not."

"How many others were there?"

"Others what? Girls?"

"Yes. Or guys."

"Besides Samantha, Kaycee and Jayde, none. Where did you come up with guys?"

"Just asking. So, what about after you graduated?"

"Nobody. What about you?"

"I'm fine."

"How many guys did you sleep with once we broke up?"

"I don't know."

"Oh no, you can't pull that shit on me. You know."

"Maybe a couple."

"Just two?"

"Maybe about three."

"About?"

"A few. Okay?"

"A few could mean three or it could be hundreds."

"It's not over a hundred."

"Over ten?"

"Maybe."

"Maybe? Damn, Julie. How many guys did you sleep with? And don't count the girls."

"I'm not sure."

"I don't believe that. You know how many."

"A dozen."

"Just a dozen?"

"Thirteen."

"Fuck! I slept with a grand total of three different girls when I was away and here you go out with over a dozen guys. That's like over four times the amount that I fooled around with."

"I didn't fool around."

"You slept around?"

"Yes."

"There's no difference."

"Yes, there is."

"I know. I wouldn't understand because I'm a guy." I shook my head.

She shrugged.

"Tell me this, Julie. That guy that you were shacked up with right before me, what's his name again?"

"Shawn?"

"Yeah, him. How did you two hook up?"

"I don't know. He wasn't very nice but he was controlling. I can't believe we ended up together. I guess he was convenient."

"And you let him control you?"

"I was smaller then. It was kind of the norm for me back then."

"Not anymore."

"The point is moot with him, Sam. He's gone."

"Oh I totally know that. Nobody can control you anymore. I mean because you're bigger than everyone."

"It does put a different perspective on things."

"I bet it does."

"You have no idea how different things are now. I can barely comprehend it myself."

"It's been less than a year."

"Things changed too fast. Sam, it makes my head spin."

"Would you go back if you could?"

"No. Sometimes I think I do. But only if it were for you."

"I get it. Some things are better, some aren't."

"You probably don't realize what is and what isn't. You couldn't know."

"True. I've been changing too and I have a completely different perspective than before, just the opposite of you though."

"I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault."

"But ..."

"But what?"

"Nothing. Just forget it. Do you think we're still compatible?"

"You think it's my fault, don't you?"

"No."

"That's what you said earlier."

"Whatever."

"I still love you, Julie and as long we have that we'll make it work no matter how compatible or not we are. Don't you agree?"

"Yeah, I do."

"The others are catching up. Let's get going."

"Ok. Try to keep up."

I shook my head again.

"Oh come on, Sam. I know you're fast."

"It's not that."

"Then what?"

"Thirteen."

This time she rolled her eyes. "Ok, Sam. Hold up for a minute."

"What is it?"

"I want you to know that, none of them ever came close to you."

"Really?"

"Really. You were much better. Even in bed."

"Uh, Julie."

"What?"

"We never really slept together until last year. How could you measure me against any of those other guys?"

"I imagined how it would be."

"And when we finally got intimate, did I live up to your expectations?"

"More so."

"What about now?"

"Why would it be any different now?"

"Well, because I look up to you and you look down on me."

"Like this?" she asked as she stood over me. I looked up right into her crotch. I don't think she could even see me, maybe only my butt and feet, but I was pretty much hid by her stomach and tits.

"Yeah. Like that."

"It's really pretty sexy."

"I can't imagine what it's like for you."

"Think about how Zoe is for you."

"Ok."

"Multiply that by three."

"It still doesn't make any sense to me."

"How about this?" she said right before picking me up and giving me a kiss.

"Mmmm. That makes sense."

"Good. Let's go."

We went walking down the path with her holding me.

"Julie?"

"Yes."

"There's really no difference with you sleeping around and me fooling around."

"There is. Just accept it."

"Fine. Whatever. I'll never understand you girls."

"We know."

"So, do I need to make it up to you for fooling around?"

"Yes."

"How?"

"I'll think of something."

I shook my head again.

"What now?" she asked.

"Thirteen. I mean really. Thirteen?"

She stopped. "Ok, Sam. I can settle this. How many girls have you slept with?"

"Total? Counting you?"

"Not counting me."

"Let's see. There's the three from college. That's it."

"What about afterwards?"

"There was only you."

"What about the others?"

"After we got back together?"

"Yep."

"Ohhh, that. Well there's only Cindy, Sue and now Zoe. Oh, and Wilma. So seven."

"What about that girl in Arizona? Kaycee."

"She's one of the three from college."

"Okay. And Tee?"

"Oh yeah, her. And Sharon."

"You forget so easily."

"That's only nine."

"That's it?"

"Yeah."

"What about Gail?"

"Julie, I've never slept with Gail."

"You've never had sex with her?"

"No. Why would you think that?"

"I just assumed you did. You two act like it. She likes you."

"I like her too. But no we didn't."

"Did you have sex with anybody else in Utah?"

"Just Wilma."

"What about Arizona?"

"Just Cindy and Kaycee. Oh wait. I forgot about Bonnie."

"Who's Bonnie?"

"Kaycee's friend."

"You did it with Kaycee's friend?"

"Wait. Did I?"

"How would I know?"

"We only ... no wait. I did, didn't I?"

"Don't ask me. Ask Cindy."

"Cindy wouldn't know. She was never around; she was always with Gabe."

"Was Kaycee around?"

"Uh, yeah. She was."

"Aha, a threesome?"

"Not exactly."

"What exactly?"

"Kacyee watched."

"Did Bonnie have Borg fever?"

"Borgford's disease. No, she didn't. She was normal size."

"Normal. What's that?"

"Ha, ha. Very funny. She was about Erin's size."

"You mean Chloe."

"Shit. I keep forgetting she changed her name. I've been calling her 'Erin' all my life, Julie. It's really hard for me to remember to call her 'Chloe'."

"I know. What do you think of her hair?"

"Her hair is fine. She can color it whatever way she wants for all I care. It's her decision, not mine anyway. It just took me by surprise the first time I saw it."

"Are you used to it now?"

"Yep. It's just her name that I keep getting hung up on. By the way, she doesn't count. She's my sister."

"Who's counting?"

"You are. What's the count now?"

"Ten. Three more to go."

"That's it, Julie. Ten. I can't even believe it myself. Does that mean I get three more for free?"

"No. Do you begrudge me because I've slept with more people?"

"No. Do you begrudge me because I'm sleeping with more now?"

"I don't know. I've had sex with Gail and you apparently have not."

"Yep. You are keeping score, aren't you?"

"No."

"Then I get to sleep with Gail, right?"

"If you want to."

"Julie, that was rhetorical. Yes, Gail is sexy. But no, right now she has a big creep after her and the last thing she needs is another one. I won't be doing anything like that, ok?"

"So, you're a self-admitted creep?"

"All guys are creeps. You should know that."

"You aren't."

"Thanks but that's not the vibe I get from most girls."

"Then good. They don't need to know what they're missing. You stay with the ones you have now who know you're not a creep."

"Ok. Can I creep on you?"

"I hope so."

"Can I creep up your leg?"

"Not while I'm holding you."

"Put me down."

"You'll have to run to catch me."

"If I have to run then yeah, I'll run."

"Are you sure you don't want a ride?"

"It would be unfair to the others."

"Ok. Down you go."

She put me down and started taking her giant strides again. I took off running to catch her. When I got close she took off her shirt and dropped it on me like a parachute had just collapsed above me.

"Hey, watch it." I said. Then she took off her bra and dropped it on my head again. "What are you doing?"

"It's called getting topless, Sam."

"I thought you didn't want the stares?"

"There's nobody here to stare."

"You realize that once the others catch up this will be a good excuse for Cindy to do her thing."

"Then we better not let them catch up." she said. With that she took off with her big strides again. I had to run and carry her clothes. The things I do for love.

She kept picking up the pace. With the load I was carrying I couldn't keep up. Pretty soon she was out of sight. I stopped. I could hear her. She took a path off to the right. It wasn't as worn as the main path that we were on but I knew for sure she had gone down this one. I took it and before long I came to her pants scattered right in the middle of the trail. They were capri pants, but then, all pants that weren't shorts were capri pants to Julie. I don't think there was enough fabric to make them long enough for her legs. It meant that all she had on now were her panties.

I shouldn't have to tell you that Mr. Happy was excited. I ended up running until I came upon her panties. This time I decided to gather all of her clothes together and hide them off to the side rather than carry the whole bundle -- it was getting heavy. I stuck a piece of wood in a stump next to the trail where I hid her clothes. Now this meant that Julie was completely naked. Well except for her shoes. I ran further down the trail.

And soon enough, right there in the middle of the trail again were her socks stuffed into her shoes. Damn, now she was running barefoot amongst the twigs and rocks and thorns: truly, completely and utterly nude now. I ran for a hundred yards or so down the path and stopped. I listened, and I looked and I smelled.

Yes, smelled. I know, it's weird, but I could smell her. Maybe being so huge meant that she had more smell to leave behind, or maybe living with her I just became very accustomed with it. In any case, I knew she was near.

I remained motionless, not even turning my head. I listened some more. Nothing. I moved only my pupils from side to side.

I felt the wind blow gently around me. Wait. Around? Were the trees causing turbulence in the air? I turned around and my eyes met the middle of a giant tanned thigh the size of an oak tree. An almost unbearably beautiful oak tree. Did I ever mention that she has great legs? And how the fuck did she sneak up on me without a sound like that anyway?

I stared up into a bare assed pussy hovering over me like a ceiling fixture. I could have reached up but would have barely touched it, that's how far above me it was. Sticking straight out was her clit as hard and proud and solid as Mr. Happy was.

"Julie?"

"Yes."

"You're naked."

"Thanks for reminding me. What're you going to do about it?"

I think she wanted me to reach or climb my way up. Instead, I decided to stay at my own level and gently kissed the inside of her thigh. I heard a breath of air being sucked in from way above me.

I walked from between her legs to behind where I planted more kisses around her right thigh. Her knees buckled slightly. This was definitely producing an effect on her. I opened my mouth wider with each kiss until my teeth were scraping skin. I wasn't biting but I put enough pressure to where she could tell my teeth were against the bare flesh of her tan thigh along with my tongue and the moisture and warmth from my mouth. I wanted to drive her crazy. By the noises she was making, I could tell that I was succeeding.

I worked my way around to her front where I focused my ministrations above her knee and then moved over to the left thigh where I tried to do the same but I never got the chance to finish.

Julie sat down to face me and proceeded to take my clothes off. I didn't resist. When we were both buck-naked I resumed with my kisses on her thighs. She lay back as I worked up to her enormous dripping vagina, her clitoris towering above it standing nearly straight up. I couldn't resist. I clamped my mouth around it and began giving her a 'blow job'. I know, not really. But that's just a technicality. 'Blow job' is the only appropriate phrase for it.

She was bucking like a big old bronco and I found it hard to hang with her. I stuck three fingers into her vast opening, then four, then my whole hand was soon pumping in and out of her. I was using all my fingers to stimulate the rough top part of her pussy looking for her g-spot.

I'm not sure exactly where the spot was but I had certainly found it. The stimulation there combined with my mouth on her clitoris soon brought her over the edge of that cliff. Her hips were bouncing up and down so hard that I ended up with a bloody nose from hitting my face against her hard stomach.

When she came her back was arched and her hips were so far off the ground that I was up on my knees. After the spasms of her climax had settled down she laid her head back and rested until her breathing returned to normal. Then she said "Your turn."

"Oh yes. My turn. My turn."

Hey, it's not like I was eager or anything, right? Hah!

She picked me up under my arms and brought me to her face. With her elbows now under her I straddled her neck as she bent her head up to take Mr. Happy into her mouth for a ride. And what a ride it was. My dick and balls literally disappeared. It's a feeling every guy should experience.

As expected, I didn't last too long. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Julie swallowed every bit of cum I produced. It felt like a gallon to me, but was probably no more than a few drops for her. We were both satisfied though and that's what mattered.

We ended up afterword with Julie resting her back against a tree and me resting my back against her, sitting between her legs.

"Are you warm enough, little one?"

"I'm warm next to you. But do you have to call me little one?"

"You are little."

"Let's not go through this again."

"Alright. Are you hurt?" she said looking down.

"No. Why?"

"Your nose."

"My nose is fine."

"I have a hankie in my back pocket. Where are my pants?"

"Just down the path a little ways. I gathered it all together and hid it to the side."

"We better get going."

"Nobody will find it. I hid it good."

"We have to clean you up."

"Let's stay dirty."

The remark made her smile. "I need to clean your nose."

"My nose is fine. I'll wipe it on my shirt. You don't have to treat me like a child, Julie."

"I can't help it. You're so ... I mean I just want to eat you up."

"Into vore?"

"What? No."

"Look, I'm good, Julie. See? The blood is all dried. I'll take care of my nose later. I just need a little water and a napkin to clean it up."

"We have baby wipes in the car."

"Excellent."

As I lay against her I could feel her gigantic clitoris in my back. I turned around and looked down at it. It was still hard.

"I could go down on you again, Julie." I offered.

"No! No!"

"Sure?"

"It's too sensitive right now."

"Okay. I don't think you'll want to be seen with that angry monster standing up like that. Just sayin'."

"Give it a minute; it'll settle down. They've all seen it already."

"What if other people see us?"

"Oh, yeah. I didn't think of that."

"Do you like being naked out in the open?"

"I don't feel out in the open with all the trees around."

"I do."

"Cindy would like this. I can understand how she feels."

"You're becoming quite the nudist, Julie."

"You can't tell me you don't like me this way."

"I didn't say that. Cindy's rubbing off on everyone."

"You too?"

"Pffft. I never really cared. I just don't want to get myself into trouble."

"What about Zoe?"

"A little. She doesn't get naked all that much."

"She does around you."

"No she doesn't."

"Do you like her?"

"Of course I do, Julie. I wouldn't have her living here with us if I didn't."

"Let me rephrase that. Do you love her?"

"Love? Now there's one hell of a question. I've grown a lot more fond of her than I was before, which I suppose is inevitable with her living with us. Hmmmm, do I love her?"

"Could you?"

"Oh, I could. She's different than most people."

"Because she's little?"

"That has nothing to do with it. Even if she were your size, she's a very unique person. Surely you see it too."

"It's because she's a lesbian."

"That's not it either. Besides, she has sex with me. That makes her bi, not lesbian."

"Don't tell her that."

"I suppose I do love her in a way. Like a real sister. She's the little sister I used to have because Erin, I mean Chloe, is now my big sister."

"Chloe's not so big."

"Only to you. Do you realize how much of a giantess she is to me? My little fuckin' sister! And that makes you look like some titan."

"Is that an insult?"

"No, Julie. It's a compliment."

"Do you think Zoe will ever leave?"

"Sure. I suspect soon. She has a job now and is much better off than she was before. Why? Getting tired of her? Are you jealous?"

"No. I'm fond of her too."

"Do you want her to stay?"

"It wouldn't be the worse thing to happen."

"I always had the intention of helping her just enough for her to get back onto her feet, Julie."

"So that's why you took her in?"

"Well, yeah."

"Even though you knew what she did to you?"

"Are you talking about the deal with Samantha?"

"Yeah."

"It didn't matter. If you saw how pitiful her life was back there in Arizona you'd do the same."

"I don't know about that."

"Well, I felt I had to. We were connected. It didn't matter how tenuous that string holding us together was, it was like her life was already part of mine. There was no way I was just going to leave her like that."

"Do you remember her back in college?"

"Seriously, no. I can't remember her at all back then."

"She was always there in the background, wasn't she?"

"I have no doubt of that."

"What was her screen name?"

"What screen name?"

"The one in the game that they were all playing with Jill."

"Oh, uh, I think it was something like blackmouse."

"Blackmouse. Fitting. She always was against that plan, wasn't she?"

"Plan?"

"The one where you slept with Samantha."

"You're never going to let me forget that, are you?"

"I didn't mean it that way. Just that Zoe was against it."

"Well, that's what Zoe says. How did you know?"

"She ... uh, told me."

"Zoe told you?"

"Yeah. We talk sometimes."

"Alright."

"You don't blame her, do you?"

"Blame her for what?"

"You know. The whole deal with Samantha."

"You're not gonna let that rest."

"Is it because of her part in it?"

"What are you talking about?"

"What we've been talking about. Zoe didn't want to do it. Is that why you like her?"

"I don't know, I just like her. Maybe it plays a part in it but to tell you the truth I still hold her culpable."

"Yet you like her?"

"Yes."

"Do you forgive her?"

"For anything she did in the past, yes, I've forgiven her. I've forgiven Jill. I've even forgiven Samantha."

"Too bad you can't tell her."

"Samantha?"

"Yeah."

"I'm sure she knows."

"What makes you so sure?"

"Just ... things." I was thinking about how real some of the dreams I've had with Samantha were and the weird things about Zoe being a part of it. But I sure as hell wasn't going to tell Julie about it. It was too strange and I'm sure she thought I was strange enough as it was. Maybe some day.

"Did you really forgive Jill?"

"Of course. I just wish she would forgive herself."

"Maybe there's more to it."

"Like what?"

"What about the others?"

"What others?"

"The others in their group."

"I don't know, Julie. I wasn't a part of all that. All I have to go on is what Zoe and Jill tell me and Jill isn't talking much."

"Maybe Zoe doesn't know the whole story."

"Oh, she knows the story alright."

"Do you believe her?"

"Completely, Julie. I would find it very hard to believe that Zoe would make up any stories or even embellish them. I find that trait attractive about her."

"Is that what draws you to her?"

"Among other things, yes."

Julie stared down at me as I stared up at her, my head laying against her titanic tits -- a most comfortable pillow. She looked away.

"What's the matter?" I asked.

"Nothing. Do you find me attractive?"

"I can't believe you're asking me that again."

"Say it."

"Yes, I find you very attractive."

"Even though I'm ..."

"Big?"

She paused for a moment before saying "Yeah, big."

"It makes no difference."

"What if ..." she started but then stopped.

"What if what?" I asked. I felt there was something she wanted to tell me.

"Nothing. So, even if I were smaller you'd still like me?"

"I did like you when you were smaller. It wasn't so long ago. Remember?" I understood where she was coming from but it was a question she knew the answer to. I'm pretty sure that she was changing the subject away from what she really wanted to say.

"Yeah. Sam, I remember. I'm sorry I slept with all those other guys."

"You have nothing to be sorry about. We weren't together. You weren't cheating and I hope you can admit that I wasn't cheating either. Okay?"

"Ok. But I am sorry I ever slept with them. Really. They weren't like you."

"Everyone is different."

"Do you ever feel that life sucks?"

"Sometimes. What's wrong, Julie?"

"Nothing." she said again looking away. I wasn't going to push the matter, whatever it was. Maybe she was going to tell me what the deal was with her and Jill, I don't know. I figured I'd keep the conversation going and maybe she'd get back around to it. Just maybe.

"I'll miss Zoe when she leaves."

"I'll miss her too, Sam."

"What about Cindy? She's leaving real soon."

"And I'll miss Cindy too."

"Maybe you won't be running around nude so much when she's gone."

"There's still Chloe."

"Yeah. But at least she listens to me. Sort of."

"You'll just have to take Cindy's place when she's gone."

"You mean run around the house butt-naked?"

"Absolutely. But we all like seeing more than just your naked butt. Wait. We forgot."

"Forgot what?"

"Sue."

"Yeah. We haven't seen her in a while, Julie. We can invite her next time."

"No. The count's now eleven."

"No, I mentioned her. The count is still ten."

"Well there's only a three people difference. We're not so different after all."

"Really? You're sticking with that? Because, you know, it's two totally different things. These are girls you know about."

"So?"

"I don't know the guys you slept with. Alright?"

"It doesn't matter."

"If you can say there's a difference between fooling around a sleeping around then there's a difference in knowing who the other one is sleeping with and not."

"Do you want to know about all the guys I've slept with?"

"Some other time. We better get back before the others find us like this."

"I don't think they will."

"Why?"

"They went straight past where the trail splits."

"How do you know that?"

"I saw them."

"How could you see them through all the brush?"

She shrugged. "I don't know. I saw above it, I guess."

"I wish I were as tall as you." She looked at me and was about to speak but I cut her off. "No. Let's not visit that topic again."

Julie laughed.

"What's so funny?"

"Nothing."

"You're laughing at me. I know it. Spill."

"I'm sorry. It's just too funny how you can walk right under my legs."

"Oh, you mean when I was kissing them."

"Yeah. You're so cute."

"Oh, God. There's that word again."

"Get used to it. You are cute."

"Fine, but only for you. Promise me you won't pinch my cheeks."

"Which cheeks?"

"Come on, let's go find our clothes."



----- The walk back

I found mine and Julie put her shoes back on but when we got to the part of the trail where her clothes were they were gone.

"I put them right here, Julie, I swear. See the stump with the twig stuck into it. I put that twig there to remind me where it was. Only I can't find it now."

"I don't see it anywhere either."

"Keep looking."

"I am looking. You look."

"I'm looking too but you have the better vantage point. Did you see them back from where we were?"

"No, and I'd have seen them unless they were very far off. You didn't put them way out off the path did you?"

"No. Let's keep going up. Maybe there's another stump."

We reached the trail head where we had turned off and still hadn't found her clothes. Julie was reluctant to go any further.

"Sam, you go look up and down the trail. I'll stay here." she said crouching down to hide. It wasn't doing much good -- crouching, she was still taller than me.

"Alright. I'll run back as soon as find your clothes."

I went back the way we had come from first. I didn't find anything and after about ten minutes I came back. Julie was still trying to hide but you couldn't miss her.

"Hey, Julie."

"What?"

"I didn't find them. If you want to stay hidden you'll have to move much further back before nobody can see you."

"Oh."

"Look, I know it's embarrassing but you'll be able to find your clothes much easier than I can if you were out here searching. And from up there you'll be able to see anyone coming much earlier than I could too. Are you sure you still want to hide?"

"Just go up the trail for a little bit to see if they're there."

"Ok. Another ten minutes and I'm coming back."

"I'll be here."

"No doubt. I'll be right back."

I still couldn't find her clothes. I came back and after some more persuasion she agreed to help me look for them. I had never realized it, maybe because she was naked but I got a little bit of a dose of reality for what it must be like for her being so tall. The brush was cut from the trail so people could hike it easier, but not for Julie. She had to either keep moving stuff out of her face or duck down the trail.

We had gotten most of the way around the trail and were coming up on the lake. I couldn't see it, but Julie could.

"Oh shit!" she said, darting off the path into the brush. "Someone's coming." She crouched down again trying to hide and leaving me alone out on the trail.

I decided to keep going a little further looking for her clothes, not that I couldn't have seen anywhere near the area that Julie would have already surveyed. But maybe I'd find something. I heard people coming down the path.

"Sam!"

"Hi, Cindy. Hi guys."

"Where's Julie?"

"Uh, she's back there somewhere."

"Weren't you two together?"

"Yeah."

"Then why are you split up?"

"Uh, she wanted to, uh, uh, look around and just enjoy the scenery. You know. Be one with nature. That sort of thing."

"I see. I'll bet she's being one in nature. Being naked is the most natural thing in the world."

"CINDY!" Julie yelled some ways off in the distance. She came bounding up on us in no time. We could feel her footsteps from the ground as she approached. "I heard that! What did you do with my clothes?"

Poor gals were nearly crippled -- that's how hard they were laughing.

"Well?" Julie said.

"Hah. Next time you can't tell me not to take my clothes off."

"I wasn't out in public or anything."

"You are now."

"Cindy!"

"Fine. Go get her clothes, Zoe." Cindy said.

"No way. It's too much for me to carry."

"You get them, Gail."

"Oh no." I said. "We're not letting Gail out of our sight. I shouldn't have left her in the first place."

"Alright." Cindy said. "Don't go anywhere. I'll be right back." and off she went to retrieve Julie's bundle of clothes.

"So." Gail said.

"Yes, Gail?"

"So, um, what's up?"

"Nothing much, just Julie. How about you guys?"

"Hanging out. But not as much as Julie is."

Julie rolled her eyes. Her arms were around her stomach, just below her breasts. She looked uncomfortable but was showing all there was to show to the world. At least that part of the world that happened to have been in this speck of the woods right at this moment.

"Well, we've been hiking." I said. "What about you?"

"We've been hiking too. We thought we lost you two. We were just playing around, talking, the usual."

"We were playing around too."

"I'll say. You two had sex, didn't you?"

"Uh, yes." I said, reluctantly.

"It was only oral sex."

"Julie!"

"What?"

"You don't have to go telling the world."

"Geewiz, Sam. They're our friends. Gail asked nicely."

Gail and Zoe were getting a good laugh out of this predicament.

"Ah, yes. The oral sex." Gail said. "Sir Samthesnot didn't shy away from it this time."

"Looks like she could use some more of that." Zoe replied.

"What?"

"You're aroused again, Julie." Gail said pointing to her groin area where her clitoris was standing straight out again.

"Oh shit." Julie moved her hands to cover her groin. "CINDY! HURRY UP!" she shouted.

The girls were laughing. To be honest, so was I. But I was at least trying to hide it.

"IT'S OK, CINDY. TAKE YOUR TIME." Zoe shouted back.

"Zoe! Please."

"Sorry, Julie. I can't help it. You're so salacious standing there like that. I can't stopping looking. And look at you, that thing sticking out is as big as Sam's."

Gail was in stitches.

"Oh. Oh. Sam?" She said between her guffaws. "Let me see. Take off your clothes."

"What!?"

"Aw, he's embarrassed." Zoe said.

"I have nothing to be embarrassed about."

"Then show it."

"No. Julie's clothes will be here soon and we'll be on our way."

"He's afraid he won't measure up, Gail. I'll bet he's not even hard."

"Ha, ha. The jokes on you, Zoe. I'll have you know that I'm always hard."

"Prove it."

"I don't have to."

"Just pull your pants down, Sam." Gail asked. "You don't have to get completely naked."

Now it was Julie's turn to laugh.

"What about when Cindy comes back? She'll want to take off her clothes too."

"So?" Zoe said.

"Yeah, Sam." Gail added. "She has nothing on you two."

While she was talking Zoe walked over and started unbuckling my pants.

"Zoe. Stop." I said. I wouldn't fight her, but at the same time I didn't want to end up with my pants to my ankles, which was about to happen real soon. And when it did, Cindy showed up.

"Impressive, Sam." Cindy said.

I reached down to pull my pants back up.

"Ah, ah." Zoe ordered. "Move your hands. You too, Julie."

"What's going on?" Cindy asked.

"We're trying to see who's bigger, Cindy." Gail replied. "It's not so easy to tell what with Julie's being so far up there. Julie, kneel down here next to Sam."

To be fair, if Julie were normal size she would just have a big clitoris. But Julie is not normal sized as you all well know. Everything about her is huge, which makes an already big clitoris, ginormous. But what makes matters worse is that unlike most clits, the thing sticks out straight when she's aroused, which was the state she was in right now.

"No." Julie pouted.

"Aw come on. I can see you need relief."

"You're going to give her relief, Gail?" I asked.

"It's only right."

"What about me?"

"Suffer!" Gail said. Everybody else had a hearty laugh. Everybody except me. I felt sad. That is, until Gail said "I'm only kidding. Let's just see, umkay?"

"Arousing, isn't it, Julie?" Cindy asked.

"What?"

"Being nude outside. It's making you horny."

"It is not."

"It is. Look at that thing of yours. It's hard enough to chop wood. Don't tell me you're not horny."

"It's just the blood rushing to it, that's all."

"Because you're horny."

"Give me my clothes."

"Come get them."

Oops. Wrong thing to say to a nude, embarrassed, aroused, yet slightly perturbed, jumbo woman. A woman who now had fire in her eyes. Ok, I'm exaggerating that. But as quickly as you can say 'big old clit' Julie had swooped down and ripped her clothes out of Cindy's arms.

At the same time that Julie was separating her clothes out in preparation for donning, I began pulling my pants back up.

"Hey, where's my panties? And my bra?"

"Oh, there out there. It was too much for me to carry."

"Cindy! Go back and get them."

"Hold your horses. You can still get dressed or do you want to wait until I get your underwear?"

"Fine, but you better not have lost them."

"You want to wait here longer like this, don't you? You want to this moment to last."

"Just get them."

So Julie ended up putting her shirt on without a bra and of course, no panties. Her breasts swaying inside her shirt wasn't doing anything for my hard on which, no doubt because of the scenario just presented, was raging.

Nevertheless, with our clothes back on the air wasn't nearly as thick with sexual tension as it was just a moment ago. We walked out of the woods.

"Alright, Cindy. Where's my underwear?"

"I don't know. I put it right here."

"Cindy!"

"Ok, relax. Here." Cindy said. Then she reached into her front pocket. You know the magic trick where the magician pulls out a bunch of hankies tied to each other that just seem to keep going and going? Cindy pulling out Julie's underwear reminded me of that. When, it was finally all out, Cindy twirled the panties around on her finger above her head. "Woo hoo." she said right before Julie snatched it.

"The bra. Now!"

"Hang on. It was too big to stuff into my pocket. It's over behind that rock."

Now Julie was whole again, clothes-wise.

"Well?"

"Well what, Cindy?"

"Go ahead. Put 'em on. We'll wait."

"I'll bet you will." Julie snorted, then she took off toward the car.

"It's not good to make her mad, Cindy." I said.

"She'll get over it."

"I think hers is bigger than his." Gail said to Zoe as we trekked back to the car.

"I wouldn't say that. Sam's seems a little bigger to me, Gail."

"That's because you were closer to it."

"Hmm. You do make a good point. How shall we resolve this?"

"We have to do this properly with a tape measure."

"Girls." I said to them, "no. Just, no!"

"Tsk, tsk." Gail said. "Sir Samisnot is jealous of Julie."

"I am not."

"See?"

"Stop it."

"Don't you want us to give you relief?"

"You're not going to do that."

"Are you sure about that? Wouldn't you just love to have our luscious lips all over your big love member?"

"Now you're calling it big, Gail."

"I didn't say it wasn't, just that Julie's is bigger."

"It's not even the same thing."

"They're analogous."

"Gail, stop talking like that."

"Look, Cindy." Gail said. "Sam's having a hard time walking. I do mean HARD."

The girls had another good laugh. I was getting annoyed.

"You know, that was quite mean what you did to Julie."

"We'll apologize to her." Cindy said.

"Good. Don't wait. Do it when we get to the car."

"She'll be fine, Sam."

"And make it up to her."

"Why are you suddenly on her side?" Zoe asked.

"Because it wasn't nice."

"She wasn't nice to you earlier."

"We're over that."

"And she'll get over what we did. But I won't."

"What do you mean?"

"She wasn't nice to me either."

"What did she do to you?"

"She said I knew about the virus."

"I'm sorry."

"She's right."

"Zoe. We've been over this. It's ok. You know how I feel about it, right?"

"I know how you feel. But I still feel guilty."

"Don't. Please. I know that you didn't want to go along with the whole thing but were swept up in it."

"I keep thinking there's something more I could have done."

"Don't doubt yourself. It'll eat you up."

"You sound like me."

"Like you?"

"When I'm in a session with clients at work."

"Then it must be good advice."

"It just bummed me out when Julie said that."

"Is there anything I can do to make you feel better?"

"Fuck me."

"Zoe. Not here."

"Why not?"

"You are kidding. Aren't you?"

"Am I?"

"God, Zoe. You're as bad as Gail right now."

"She's right. You look so cute when your flustered."

"Is that why you de-pantsed me?"

"I only pulled them down to your knees. That's not pantsing."

"To my ankles."

She smiled a wicked smile this time then turned around and headed back to the car.

Julie was waiting when we all arrived at the car. "Let's go." she said.

"It's still too early."

"Cindy's right, Julie." I said. "But we can go eat. How about barbecue?"

Nobody wanted barbecue but they all agreed on ice cream. I somehow convinced them that ice cream is not a proper meal. Believe me, that was a feat. We decided on chicken. There was a fried chicken place down the road where we stopped to eat. Julie and I had real fried chicken and mashed potatoes. The others had nuggets and fries, just like a bunch of kids. And like a bunch of kids, we all had ice cream afterwards.



----- Home

We did some window shopping. Not much. We got lots of stares and it was a bit uncomfortable. Julie seemed, I don't know. At times she was nice. At other times, she was kind of mean. It was clear that something was bothering her and it wouldn't surprise me if it was that thing, whatever it was, between her and Jill. Neither of them were talking.

Jill was starting to come around a little bit when I saw her at the clinic though not enough to tell me what was wrong. But with Gail staying over at the house I felt like I had some ammunition: I was going to ask Jill over to help with Gail. I knew she couldn't refuse. Could she? We'll see.

The only problem here was Zoe. She wasn't too hot on Jill but she didn't know her like I did. She certainly knew her from online but that's not the same as interacting with someone face to face. I knew if Zoe got to know Jill she wouldn't hold any grudges.

Once we arrived home we found out that there was an offer on the house from a couple that was in last week. I didn't know any details as the real estate agent only heard of it today and had to go back to the office to review the paperwork. She promised she'd get back to me but also said there was another couple that visited today and they liked the place a lot and that she was sure to have an offer from them too. Things were looking up.

Fred showed up a little later with Erin, I mean Chloe, as well as Sharon and Tee. Before anything else we needed to practice. Sharon and I practiced a bit before Tee joined us in the office/makeshift studio. Tee could sing pretty well too and we wanted her to join us on stage. I was ecstatic when she said yes.

We finished practicing and I was in the mood to celebrate. The rest of them beat me to it. Julie, Chloe and Fred were drinking, as in, drinking alcohol, that is, boozing it up, getting shit-faced. I could smell it on Julie's breath. I suppose they weren't that bad, but I wasn't going near the stuff and neither was anyone else.

"Hey, Sam?"

"What, Julie?"

"You forgot Jill."

"No. No, I didn't forget about Jill."

"Yes you did. Eleven."

"What? Ohhhhhhh."

"You're only two away now." she giggled.

"What's she talking about?" Chloe asked.

"Nothing." I replied.

"It's how many girls he's slept with."

"Awwww, Julie!"

"Now don't get mad."

"Why do you keep doing that?"

"What?"

"Putting our private stuff out."

"That's hardly private. Not here. They all know each other."

I could see the girls counting, going through their minds who they knew that I slept with.

"Well, Zoe doesn't know Sue."

"That's only one."

"What happened to Sue?" Chloe asked.

"I don't know. She used to come over regularly until I went off to Arizona."

"You should invite her over."

"I will. Don't you keep in touch with her, Cindy?"

"Um huh. She's busy, that's all. She knows about Zoe. I think she's trying to stay away."

"Whatever for?"

"She thinks it's too crowded."

"See, Sam?"

"What are talking about, Julie?"

"You have so many in your harem that they feel like it's too crowded."

"I don't have a harem!"

I didn't see the humor in that, but everyone else did.

"They even know each other."

"No they don't. What about those in Arizona? Huh?" Yeah, I was kind of grasping at straws there to make my point.

"What about Arizona?"

Cindy spoke up. "Hey, I know Kaycee."

"You're not helping, Cindy."

"I know her too."

"You just met her once, Zoe."

"So, who's Kaycee?" Gail asked.

"Oh, she's his lovey-dovey in Arizona." Julie replied.

"She's not my lovey-dovey!" I said, angrily.

"Then why does she send you kisses and hugs in all her text messages?"

"You've been reading my text messages, Julie?"

Everyone looked to her. She looked like the proverbial deer in headlights. I had one on her now.

"No." she denied. "I just, uh, can see over your shoulder when you text."

"I don't see how. The phone would be what? Down by your knees?"

"Maybe I have good eyesight. You gave Kaycee Borg syndrome."

"It's called Borgford's disease and I DID NOT GIVE IT TO HER!"

"How do you know?"

"Because she said so herself."

"Maybe she's just saying that."

"Why would she say that?"

"Because she loves you."

Now you could hear a pin drop.

"And, you knew about this?"

"Everyone knows, Sam."

"Did you know, Cindy?"

"Un huh."

"Zoe?"

"Yep."

"How?"

"I could see it the way she looked at you the first time I met her."

"The only time you met her."

"Yeah. So?"

"What about the rest of you?"

"Not me." Chloe said.

"Me either." Gail chimed in.

"Thank you. See?"

"That doesn't change the fact that you like her." Julie said.

"Okay. She's all the way in Arizona guys. You have nothing to worry about Julie. Christ."

"Are you saying you have no feelings for her?" Julie asked.

"Ahhhhh!" I groaned with my face in my hands. "I don't want to talk about it."

"You never told us about the other girl from college, Sam."

"Who? Jayde? There's nothing to tell."

"Did you give her the disease too?"

"How the fuck should I know? I haven't seen her since college."

"You didn't see her on your trip to Arizona?"

"No."

"Did you look?"

"Of course I looked."

"What does she look like?"

"I don't remember. She had red hair. And she was big. Bigger than me."

"That's not saying much."

"Thanks, Julie."

"You don't have to be sarcastic about it. I was only curious."

"So am I. Maybe I'll see her again someday. How would you feel about that?"

"As long as she's not another lovey-dovey, I'm ok with it."

"I knew it. You're jealous of Kaycee."

"I'm not jealous."

"Are too."

"Just don't go leaving for Arizona without telling me."

"I wouldn't do that. Not unless it were some emergency."

"A lovey-dovey emergency?"

"Oh, stop with the lovey-dovey shit. Cindy's going to Arizona soon. So is Tee. What if one of them needs me?"

"For what?"

"I have no idea. But they are my friends. My close friends. I'd do anything for either of them."

"Ok, I'm sorry."

"I want to hear more about Sue?" Zoe asked.

"Ugh. She's a girl from the group we were in for treatment. Just like Cindy and Gail. Just like the group Tee's in. I suspect you'll meet her some day."

"Who else is in this group?"

"Nobody I've slept with."

"You could if you wanted to, Sam?"

"Oh, shut the fuck up, Gail."

"I know you want me."

"Why would you think that?"

"You're staring holes in her shirt, Sam." Zoe responded.

"Is it that obvious?"

"Laser beams are coming from your eyes."

"Shit. I'm a guy, okay? I can't help it. But I never said anything inappropriate to you, Gail. Have I?"

"You mean something like, being a bimboid succubus?"

"But, but, you were playing along."

"I know. I'm just teasing you. I like the expression on your face."

"I'm sincerely sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable, Gail."

"It's ok. I'd be suspicious if you didn't stare."

"I thought I was a lot more discrete about it."

"You all think that. I mean, look at Fred."

Chloe hit Fred on the shoulder.

"Ouch! What did I do?" he said.

"It's what you were thinking."

"I'm sorry."

"You better be." Chloe said. I could only shake my head.

"Then there's Michele, Sam." Gail started again.

"What about her?"

"Everyone knows she wants you."

"Oh God."

"What's wrong? She pretty enough isn't she?"

"Yeah. So are you."

"I'm happy you think so. You know if you don't at least go down on Jennifer soon she's going to go crazy."

"Not at work!"

"You work with Jennifer?"

"Yes, Zoe, I work with Jenn. We eat lunch together every day. She's just a friend from the group."

"You know the poor girl doesn't get any, Sam." Gail said again. "With the PDQ she's taking it's downright cruel."

"And you think it's up to me to have sex with her?"

"She did ask you, didn't she?"

"It's at work for fuck's sake. We can't be doing it at work. Wow, you two really talk."

"What about after work?"

"Julie doesn't even know her."

"Would you give him permission to fuck Jennifer, Julie?"

"Um huh. I have met her, by the way. She seems nice enough."

"Oh my God. You all are absolutely loony."

"What's PDQ?" asked Chloe.

"Pentadequinolone." we all answered.

"What's that?"

"It's the drug we're taking." I answered. "The one that makes us horny."

"Is that why you take it?"

"No, Chloe. It's to stop the shrinking. The horniness is just a bad side effect."

"Bad?" Cindy said. "Speak for yourself."

Cindy's remark served to lighten up the mood. Thankfully.

"Who else is in the group of yours, Sam?" Zoe asked.

"Oh, there's Marie and Joey." Gail answered for me. "They're engaged."

"Cool. Any other guys?"

"Besides me and Joe, and it's not Joey by the way. That would be the guy that Julie went out with. And I don't think Joe likes to be called Joey, Gail. Anyway, besides us the only other guy was Billy. And you already know about him."

"Who's Billy?" Tee asked.

"Hoo boy!" I said. We ended up retelling the whole story to her.

"It's a good thing you're helping Gail." Tee agreed.

"You should have seen him, Tee. Sam was spectacular."

"Stop making a big deal out of it, Gail."

"But you put him in his place."

"It's not something to be proud of. It was violent. I was only doing it for you."

"I know you were. I wish I could repay you, Sam."

"You've already repaid me."

"How?"

"By being friendly."

"Alright, so there was you and Joe and Billy in your group." Zoe said. "And Cindy, Gail, and the others were Sue, Jennifer and Michele. Right?"

"That's right. I'm surprised you remember all of that, Zoe."

"I know most of you already. It wasn't too much to remember the rest. Tell me about Michele."

"You're going to like this, Zoe." Cindy began. "Sam got her a job."

"You did?"

"Yes, Zoe, I did."

"Then he left her." Gail said.

"I didn't leave her, Gail. I left work for my new job."

"She thinks you left her."

"I got that job months before. I couldn't turn the new job down. Not after I went through all of that paperwork and the investigation."

"What investigation?"

"For the clearance, Zoe."

"Didn't you tell Michele?"

"I couldn't. It's all top secret shit. I couldn't very well tell them at my old job that I had put in for a new one either. You just don't do that sort of thing. And what if I didn't get the clearance?"

"Hmm. Poor Michele. She must have been upset."

"She was." Gail said.

"But I got her a better job. Doesn't that count?"

"Oh, don't get me wrong, Sam. She's grateful. She's sad that she didn't get the chance to thank you. Sound familiar?"

"Her happiness is thanks enough."

"Why haven't you told me of this before?" Zoe asked.

"Why? All I did was give them her resume and put in a good word for her. It's not like I stuck my neck out or anything."

"Like you did for me." Tee said.

"Okaaay. Like I did for you, Tee."

"Why are you so humble, Sam?"

"I'm not that humble, Zoe."

"You're always doing good things for people."

"We should all do good things for others."

"Really, Sam." Gail said. "How DID you get so humble?"

"You really want to know?"

"We all do."

"I suppose I owe you guys an explanation. We're all, well most of us are all in the same boat. But this includes you too, Julie."

"Go on."

"It's because I'm small. No, that's not it. It's because others are big."

"Ok. Someone get Sam a drink. He's making no sense." Gail said.

"Allow me to explain." I had everyone's ear. Something I'm only used to when I sing.

"Now all the big people, and you three over there are excluded because you're not typical big people, at least not in character. Anyway all the big people talk down to me. Have you all noticed that in your lives?"

"I get that." Cindy said.

"Exactly. You know what I'm talking about. I'll bet even Julie knows that."

"I do, Sam. Continue."

"And I find that most big people think they are better than us little people. Do you all ever sense that?" I said, looking at Gail.

"Yes." she said.

"Arrogance! That's what it is."

"You're right. At least a lot of times."

"Everyone is arrogant to an extent. Arrogance and pride. Have any you ever heard of the seven deadly sins?"

"I'm not religious." Gail said.

"So you've never heard of the seven deadly sins?"

"Oh, I've heard of it. I just don't live by it."

"Then do you know what the first deadly sin is?"

"Gluttony?"

"Pride!"

"Okay."

"Pride, as in arrogance."

"I can see where you're going with this."

"Do you think arrogance is a sin, Gail?"

"It certainly isn't something that's honorable. But a sin?"

"Indeed. It's not only the first but many scholars consider it the most deadly of the seven deadly sins."

"Oh right. How do they figure that?"

"Satan!"

"Ooo, brimstone and fire. I had no idea that you were into that, Sam."

"I'm not. Did you know Satan used to be an angel?"

"Yeah. He fell from God's graces."

"Do you know why?"

"He had a fight with God."

"Satan was the most brilliant of all the angels. He was proud. Too proud. He thought he was better than God himself."

"Oh, I see. That's why God fought him."

"God didn't fight him. God doesn't fight. He just banished Satan to hell never to see God or heaven ever again."

"So, you don't want to be like Satan. Fair enough."

"I see how mean and stupid arrogant people are. I want nothing of it. That's why I value humility so much. Understand now?"

"Yes."

"Everyone?"

They all agreed.

"I realize I've made mistakes but I try to admit when I'm wrong. I'm sorry if I ever hurt any of you. I am proud of helping Michele and Tee and whoever else ..."

"Me?"

"You too, Zoe. I'm proud but I don't want to be arrogant. I get embarrassed when people dwell on that stuff. Okay?"

"Sure, Sam. It's commendable."

"Thanks, Gail."

"Sam."

"What, Julie?"

"I ... I have something to say."

"Go ahead."

"I can't. I can't do this."

"Do what?"

"It's about Jill."

"Do you want to tell me in private?"

"No. Everyone here deserves to hear it."

"Ok."

"But I can't find the words to talk about it."

"Why not?"

"I'm ashamed. You're so good, Sam. And I'm ... I'm so bad."

"No, Julie. You're not bad. You're human. No more. No less."

"I've become arrogant like you said."

"You can say that again." Sharon reprimanded.

"Sharon! Don't interrupt." I ordered.

"Sorry."

"She's right, Sam. Since getting bigger I haven't been treating people all that good. Especially at work. I know what Sharon is talking about. I've even convinced myself that I was right about you."

"It's ok."

"No it isn't. I was wrong."

"We all get things wrong sometimes."

"This is way more than wrong."

"It can't be that bad."

"I-I told Jill ..."

"Julie. You don't have to tell us now. It can wait. You've been drinking."

"If I don't get it out now I never will."

I could sense it. She was going to tell us about what had come between her and Jill. Only I really felt bad for Julie right now.

"Take your time then."

"I convinced her to take the blame."

"The blame for what?"

"For everything. For you. It's all my fault. Don't you see it? It wasn't her. It was me."

"Uh, you're not talking about Samantha. Are you?" I was hoping the answer would be no.

"I am."

"So ... so ... you convinced Samantha to do what she did?"

"Yes."

"Let me get this straight. You knew?"

"Yes."

"You knew all along, all this time that we've been together. Even before that? Even back when I was in college. You knew I had this disease?"

"Yes, I did."

"You didn't tell me."

"No, I couldn't."

"You were the one typing at the computer."

"No. Jill was. I just told her what to do."

"And you convinced her not to say anything about it to me?"

"I did."

"Or Zoe?"

"That goes without saying."

"Why?"

"Because I was hurt. You left me, Sam. Do you know how that feels?"

Now she was crying.

"Julie. I'm sorry, but I have to know one more thing: did you know about the baby?"

"Yes."

"Who's idea was it about the abortion?"

"Mine. Jill thought it was wrong."

"I see."

Tears welled up in her eyes and dripped off of her cheeks. She got up and ran to the bedroom.

I looked at Zoe. Zoe didn't say anything. Mouths were open yet everyone in the room was silent.

Julie came out of the bedroom, keys and purse in hand. She ducked under the front door and disappeared.