Mandy cried and ran to her room.Mandy cried and ran to her room. Mandy's father had always been closer but as Mandy reached her sixth and seventh birthdays, he had pulled back from her. Mandy was so grateful for The Lecy's openess about sex. Robin was playing "doctor and nurse" with boys in the neighborhood and telling Mandy all about it. Mandy had secretly watched Robin with boys and wished she had the guts to let boys see her naked. Mandy, as little girls do at about her age, most wanted to see her father naked. Her mother went to visit her ailing parents. She left suddenly and without a word to Mandy which was fine with Mandy. Mandy decided the best way to catch a look at her father was to hide in his closet after his morning shower. She would hide and leave after he went down stairs. Mandy woke up extra early . She got brushed her teeth, went to the bathroom, and got dressed before her father's alarm went off. She listened to her father's alarm go off. He sleepily shuffled off to the shower. Mandy quietly snuck into the bedroom that was normaly forbidden land to the 8-year-old. Mandy secreted herself in the walk-in closet that belonged to her mother. She wasn't STUPID enough to hide in her father's closet. The shower stopped. Mandy could hear the last of the water trickling down into the tub and down the drain. Mandy's heart beat very fast within her small, thin chest. John Roberts, now fully awake, breezed into his bedroom and turned on the radio. The light, Christian music usually heard softly filtering out of radio was quickly switched to raucous rock-and-roll music. |