Chapter101: 101

The next morning, Jessica came into the kitchen while I was reading the paper and having my morning coffee. She flounced past me, still wearing her panties and tank top, and snatched a box of cereal out of the cabinet. Noisily, she stormed around the kitchen, banging drawers and cabinets, rattling the silverware, and clanging her dishes angrily on the table. My eyes couldn’t help but notice the outline of her lithe frame in her little ensemble. Somehow, she looked different to me. Yesterday, she’d been my little girl. Today, I was eyeballing her like a piece of meat. I shook my head and hid behind the newspaper, trying to shake the picture of her little body out of my head. Jessica poured milk into her cereal, and I could hear it slosh some bits out onto the table. She set the jug down with a thud and I heard her spoon start to clink against the ceramic bowl and the telltale crunch as she ate her cereal. I peeked cautiously around the side of my newspaper. She glared at me with stormy