Chapters Sixteen through Eighteen Summary

John and Nikki are having sex with Nikki calling out that she's been a "bad girl." After the sex, Nikki comments on the warmth of John's body and he says it's because of the hair. Nikki says that her father is "smooth," and that she knows from an incident when she was fourteen. When John asks if her father raped her, Nikki says it wasn't rape, that she had been curious and had gotten into the shower with him. She then tells John that she isn't seventeen, but that she is almost sixteen. As John and Nikki are lying in bed after the sex, John hears the boys arrive home. He panics, telling Nikki to hide, but Ricky throws open the bedroom door. John expects a scene but Ricky says hello to Nikki and asks if they...