~ Shards of Sapphire ~
Lily was awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of a loud crash - which, unless she was mistaken, had been the sound of something wooden breaking. The initial crash was followed by a slightly delayed litany of swear words.
She recognized her eldest son's voice, but barely had time to wonder what Damon had done before there was a knock at her bedroom door.
Lily quickly pulled a robe on over her nightgown and answered the door, to find Damon's wife standing there.
"Can I borrow a pair of tweezers?" Rose asked without preamble. "It turns out the nightstand wasn't as sturdy as we thought... and now I have to pick splinters out of your son's unmentionable parts."
But... she did mention his parts. And Lily really didn't want to think about all the implications of the things Rose had just said to her. (Apparently they had been doing naked activities on the nightstand, and it had collapsed under the couple's combined weight. She didn't understand why they would have picked that particular piece of furniture for such activities, and on second thought she didn't want to understand.)
Lily retreated into her room and located a pair of tweezers.
"You can keep them," she said as she handed over the tweezers.
Borrow implied that the item would be returned... and Lily definitely didn't want it back after it was used for the purpose her daughter-in-law had stated.
~oOo~