”Hal turns to him while he finishes his toast. “Second question first. James Hanes and his crowd think they run the school and all who go there. U...til this week I’ve tried to keep a very low profile. However, most of the clubs I belong to put me in the nerdy crowd, and a natural target for bullying when they want some fun. So when I asked his sister to go to the coming school dance with me James saw that as an attack on his social position as the top dog at the school. I suspect it may have. Truthfully I couldn’t claim I was innocent in this whole thing. I had been letting him cross the line, and crossing the line myself, so many times. But with the absence of his parents, and some sort of apparent dead line in his head, Cal was moving in for the kill today. “Maybe I should. We’re wasting all this good study time.” “We’ve got the whole weekend. My parents are gone.” “And you expect me to hang around?” “Why not? You got something better to do?” “Maybe!” He grabbed me and. With everything that had happened I found myself realizing that those 2 words were the only things that I didn't say to her and they should have been the first 2 words out of my mouth. I was ashamed and instead of looking at Jodi I broke our gaze and looked down. She grabbed my chin and pulled my face up so we were looking at each other again. She started speaking again but this time she had more to say.“I am sorry for what I have done to you. I have run you through an emotional gambit for. "Yes, I remember telling you that when I guess I was about ten. I never wore blue anything, except of course, jeans." Why the change," my mother asked.I was wondering that same thing myself. Why blue? Why now! That's when Michelle added herself to the conversation."It's because of Dad," she offered."Me?" I asked.Picking up the answer, Lindie added, "Yes you!"I started wearing only a blue ribbon in my hair as a protest against being dragged away from here." Then very softly she added, "I.