” Her face was close to my ear, her hair touching my skin, her hand firm on my arm until it slid down and held my hand. “Let’s go somewhere a bi... quieter.” I was too stunned to resist as she led me by the hand to the quiet area’s bar. “Let’s get one thing straight. I’m sorry about Val but I promise you I didn’t send you that picture. If I’d wanted to steal her from you, I’d have told you to your face in Manchester. I know how it must have hurt you to see that pic, but that is not my style. So,. Sarah told me they would last for two days until they turned brown. I told her that I thought they would turn brown in the fall. She just shook her head and started walking into the woods.Sarah had us both positioned at the edge of the woods to watch Marks' house. I was very bored and thought that I was done with bugs when I had given up life as a tramp. Sarah and I were taking turns watching every four hours, or so. I thought that I would let her sleep as much as I could. Once again I was. Did you also have sex with others?" Um..." Sandra thought about it and then remembered something she wanted to make a point about. "Well, there is something that happened to me, that I think would never have happened if I wouldn't have been naked." You mean what happened to you on Friday?" Yes. I was almost raped!" I know. I heard those guys have been punished already." Do you know what happened to them?" I believe the one who raped you..." Almost raped me!" Almost raped you! Was sent to the. Each also made a point to include me in their dance, creating a feelingof safety and security unlike anything I had ever experienced before. Icouldn't help but compare it to my own childhood, with its silences andstorms of rage, and found myself envying Allison.If I had had a home like this maybe . . . Soon, we were finisheddinner, and curled up on a couch watching TV. I felt safe in a wayunlike anything I had felt before. I found myself thinking that if Inever got back to my old life, this.