But not just any date—I need a birthday date.”She was talking in circles, and I was too tired to follow. “What?”“I need a date for my birthd...y, silly,” she said. “A bunch of us are planning to hit a club downtown. It was originally gonna be just us girls, but they all wanted to invite their boyfriends. Now I’m the only girl without a date. How’s that gonna look? The birthday girl without a date?”Despite my exhaustion, I chuckled. “No, that definitely won’t work.”“So I thought to myself, ‘Who’s. Its soft and tender, she holds her lips to mine for a moment before pulling away. Our eyes lock, there is a fire and a desire there. I hold her hips and pull her into to me. Our lips met again but this time there’s more heat and passion. Our lips quickly part and our tongues dance around each other. It’s a hot passionate kiss, her hands roam up my back and I hold her in place with mine. We eventually break the kiss. “That certainly helps” I joke.“I’m not the jealous type but I’ve wanted to kiss. Watching all this, the farmer was so impressed with the volunteer fire department’s work and was so grateful that his farm had been spared, that right there on the spot he presented the volunteers with a check for $1,000. A local news reporter asked the volunteer fire captain what the department planned to do with the funds. “That ought to be obvious,” he responded, wiping ashes off his coat. “The first thing we’re gonna do is get the Goddamned brakes fixed on our fire truck.THE IRATE. So far it seemed to be a pleasant alternative to the heavily manipulated air in most houses. Well it probably helped that I lived in the mountains as well. If I had trees where the house sat, it would be even cooler. I was on a piece of land that had been a farm's field many years before, till they wore the soil out. Any profit from crops in my field would have been severely cut by the cost of the fertilizer needed to grow the product. I had those thoughts while I rode the bicycle to the plaza.