Chapter 112

• I was still thankful when we got home pulling into the drive that nothing had happened to set off either woman, though the evening was far from being over yet. Even mom gave me a questioning look after having heard from Irene later that afternoon that I was bringing another guest home...a woman. With Bella up in her room no doubt changing into god knows what for dinner, and DeeDee likewise "freshening up," mom turned to me.
• "You do enjoy playing with fire don't you son?" She asked with a bit of a smirk on her face. "Or is this some other science project you're working on that I don't know anything about," she giggled to herself.
• "Well hopefully I won't be putting out any fires," I assured her. "It's just dinner, and perhaps a swim later," I said having told DeeDee earlier to bring along a bathing suit, just in case she did want to go for a swim later after dinner. Something I had purposely failed to mention to Bella, though I figured she'd find out soon enough anyway. Not to mention the so-called bet we had made, though even that I was now wishing I hadn't made with her. Not that I thought I would lose it...not this time anyway, but I wasn't so sure how comfortable things would be when the real fire...the bonfire erupted later on that evening. Or fireworks as mom had eluded, which was just as likely to happen if not more so. Which I was now pretty sure would happen, though hopefully long after my parents had themselves retired for the evening. My only relief came in that Bella had already assured me she wouldn't approach DeeDee about anything until the time was right for one. And only then after we were both pretty well assured we wouldn't be interrupted by anyone either. I did ask mom to see what she might be willing to do in the way of keeping dad occupied with something else however, just in case he wanted to stay up and sort of keep an eye on things. Or in this case, two sets of things...though I doubted either one of us would actually get a chance to see that.