Then it happens, as if in slow motion, she trips and falls to the floor with a muffled shriek. I run over to help her and check that she's not badly h...rt. Her bag has emptied all over the floor. I look at her face with a concerned smile and she looks back at me as if she is going to cry. I ask if she's alright and she nods as we put all her things back into her bag. I help her up and hand her things back to her and then she looks down and we both notice the cuts on her knee. She's very shaken. "That way, we can be real about it. We won't even have to simulate the clothing. I'll have fun yanking the pants off you." Amanda just stared at him for a moment. "You're serious, aren't you?" Cris just nodded. "Well," Amanda said timidly, "We can do it. I mean, practice the scene. You can't pull my panties down, though. You have to promise! 'Cause we can't actually do it, ya know? Have sex" She finished. "I know what you meant" Cris said. "Well, do you promise?" she asked."Whatever," Cris. She pulled her head back “That was worse than my first kiss when I was fourteen.”I agreed “We have to do better. If we do that on stage they’ll boo us right out of the building. We have to get over this reluctance to be intimate and be the actors we think we are; we have to act out the scene. We have to become the romantic couple in love no matter what we feel. Start acting.”Toni looked up into my face, put her hands on each side of my head and pressed her mouth to mine. She kissed me like. She would say that she didn’t want sex to change her relationship with our friends. A couple years after Daniel and Leah moved in the neighborhood, Leah became pregnant. I am not sure who was happier, Leah or Shellie. Shellie would go with her to the doctor, and became her lamaze coach. Their shopping trips became more frequent and much more expensive. Once the baby was born, we became like her second set of parents. When Leah went back to work after her maternity leave, Shellie would pick Lynn.