Neither of them noticed me, though I was only ten feet away.The kid dipped into his pocket and pulled out a folded bill, it looked like a twenty but I...wasn't sure. Kenny grabbed it, unfolded it, and smiled. 'Extortion, ' was my first thought, but then Kenny reached into the locker and pulled out a baggy. Something green and leafy. Probably oregano. Kenny was running an herb store for aspiring cooks.I took three big steps and kicked the locker door hard. It smashed closed, not quite catching. “The PKK, Kurdish resistance, has been pushing west from its normal territory,” the driver answered. “It is safer not to be on the roads after dark.” Relieved that the driver seemed to be taking their safety seriously, Keith held out his hand.“I’m Keith Drucker,” he said. “This is Dr. Zayne.”“I am honored, Mr. Drucker,” the driver said without looking at Maddie. “I am Najat. Now, we must hurry.”At a mountaineering store in a local shopping plaza, Keith and Maddie bought boots, heavy parkas,. After that, "Josh, you haven't come." I'm going to wait. It's going to be hard, but I'm going to do it." Yep, you're going to be hard all right." How soon can we get married?" How about tonight?"Josh laughed. "No, no, a real one. We don't need to cheat when we have the rest of our lives."They agreed that there was no reason to wait, and they'd get married as soon as it could be arranged. Money was going to be a problem, they didn't even own a double bed between them, and Josh owed his parents. Like it would be soeasy to just dress up like a girl and all. So I said 'what about feelinglike a sissy. I thought you were scared.' He said the sissy was going tobe Lucas when he lost. I told him good luck if he thought he could do iton his own. That he would probably be begging me to help transform himfrom a studly guy to a prissy girly girl. He just laughed."This was getting more and more interesting. First Lucas and now Andy. Itreally was hard to picture Andy doing this. Lucas was not so.