If you fold, it's a wash and we end up with both." Ninety-five?" The rep looked pained."We'll do one-ten for the one being financed -- twenty percent ...own." I don't know..." How much are you leasing storefronts for? There's a stairwell to the far one, right?" Darla asked.The rep looked cagey. "Three thousand a month." But owners get a break, right?" Milo pressed. "One year lease, fifteen hundred a month. First, last, and security." One hundred," the rep pressed."One-oh-five for the second,. After forty-five seconds of relative foolishness, Mr. Ballows clapped his hands to regain our lost attention.“Mike, Mike, Mike,” he called out as my classmates slowly settled back down from their rambunctiousness. “If we can at least attempt to salvage a few moments of musical discourse, can you explain why you added those 1960s’ vocalizations to your song? Oh, by the way, Lynette, I thought you did a great job with the lyrics.”“Thank you, Sir,” Lynette replied as she gave me a not so subtle. Is it really true?”“A boy named Richard King asked me out once, and I said ‘No.’ The next day at school, my best girlfriend Sandra Carlisle told me that he was bragging that he got a BJ from me. To this very day, I don’t know what that means.”Could my sister really be this naïve?I moved to my desk chair, settled in, and asked, “Didn’t mom ever tell you about boys?”“I know about the birds and the bees, we never got into any specifics. She must’ve thought we had plenty of time, I was only 14 when. . ?" asked Valerie.He grinned and said "It's OK for now. That's kind of ... special. I want to save it. Is that OK?" Sure, honey" she said, her heart beating faster. She liked to delay gratification too ... sometimes.They had a bite to eat and neither Robby nor Megan got dressed, sitting at the table naked while their mother walked around, her robe flapping in the breeze. Megan saw Robby watching and poked him, rolling her eyes. He was rock hard the whole time.Then it was time to go back.