"Sometimes even a blind hog finds an acorn."Both of them laughed. I heard footsteps. "Stop talkin' about 'er. She's back," I said."Uh," she feigned di...appointment. "I thought all you guys talked about was work!" Unless somebody finds a flower on the dirtpile." Jeff grinned. "Hey, that's it! Can we call you 'Flower'?"Susan smiled. "That's cute!"We followed Jeff out the back of the building. He got in his company pickup truck and we got in ours and followed him through the Alabama countryside.. Downtown was hopping with students, fans and alumni. A lot of people came on Friday night to avoid the horrible traffic backups on Route 322 on Saturday.Trevor and I kissed our girlfriends good night after dinner. We had a game plan to study. Coach Schroeder, head coach for the Blue Team, had drawn a regular game plan for tomorrow.In addition to being a scrimmage, a chance for young players to learn and a PR event for our fans, our coaches put great stock in besting their opponents. I had. . her body responding to those feelings and sensations Owen only thought he was bringing her.And then her frustration broke like a mighty thunder storm. She couldn't help herself. She knew that what she was about to do was wrong, and in the back of her mind was the thought that at any moment, Owen could come home and catch her. In a way, she hoped that he would. That would take the wind out of his sails. He would see with his own eyes that she was hardly frigid.Far from it, in fact. He would. No longer would she feel like a princess trapped atop a tower, today would be her first day of a real school.When her parents asked what she wanted for her 18th birthday she told them she wanted to go a real school and be allowed to make real friends. In what may have been her first act of real defiance, she wouldn't accept no as an answer. Years of seclusion left her with a hunger for the outside world and although her parents were stubborn, they could see the seriousness in her eyes when she.