I’ll pick up the wheelbarrow tomorrow,” said Tom. He looked around the back yard for a moment, then walked over to the fence. “I need to take a ...eak.”“We ought to piss on this asshole,” commented Bob. He, too, walked over to the edge of the yard and unzipped. Afterwards the two men left and went back over to the Tom’s home.“It was a really great party. Bob and I are going to have to do this soon,” said Paige.“Well, when you do, call me up and I’ll help. We can get Georgia to loan us her. ‘One thing about the booze, though, I know it’s supposed to speed you up, but he seems to slow down.’ She giggled. ‘He can really go sometimes.’ ‘And, you don’t like that?’ Jake asked. ‘What?’ she said. ‘Oh. Oh. Well… No, it’s not that. He doesn’t do anything to me I don’t let him. It’s just that…’ She sighed. ‘I wish he’d pay attention to me. You know?’ She raised her gray-green eyes to his. ‘I wish it was me he was making love to, not just a body with my face on it.’ He was watching the first. "Um yesI am Carrie." Oh good sweetie I guess your mommy told the other hairstylist that we wouldbe trimming your hair up but not taking any length off so come with mehoney."I watch as she reaches out and takes my hand as we walk back to thehairstylist chair right next to Miley. My pretty hairstylist puts a boosterseat on the chair and lifts me up from under the arms and puts me downsoftly on the pink booster seat. Miley turns and smiles at me for somereason. "I hope she cuts all your pretty. It wasn’t that I didn’t have the money, but I knew if I did it he would badger me about buying him more stuff in the future. I explained to him if we were going to be friends, he was the boy and had to pay for everything.”“Really?” Dad asked incredulously.“I asked Mom about it, and she confirmed that was the rule. She added a bunch more rules about opening doors, letting the girl pick the movie, and other things a ‘young man’ should do,” I shared, using air quotes.Brook hugged Tami.“I wondered.