Phineas had finally stopped his spasms and began to float to the top, yet another dead beta fish in a long line of siblings that never saw two years. ...Samantha’s butterfly lips moved, but no sound came out. She bobbed her head once more to the music, and then shook it, shrugging to herself as if in deep conversation or thinking up lyrics to the song that had none. I’d been around a few unstable people in my life, especially during a short juvie stint. You saw kids crumble all the time. They. We had been friends for a few years before Alex showed me his inner, other self. Outside of his room, he was just normal Alex, but in his room, with no one else around, he was A-lex-a. We were young, inexperienced, but, as most boys are, incredibly horny. To be honest, I had become incredibly attracted to Alexa also. That first encounter in his room was a light headed blur. He looked amazing and by misleading me at first, he already knew I thought Alexa was beautiful. He had shown me pictures. He didn't let me participate in extra-curricula activities at school either. I wasn't allowed to take private lessons in piano, even though my teacher told my dad I was potentially gifted. Dad said music was a waste of time.I wasn't allowed to play soccer with my friends because Dad didn't want me getting my clothes dirty. He also thought playing sports would distract me from my studies. One of my worst memories was when Dad bought me cheap clothes to save money and these cheap clothes made me. Your strips are only a tiny part of the flat surface of a track, so less useful to my mind.”“Very well. Now, imagine a cart with an axle having two wheels the same distance apart as the wooden rails. The special trick this time is that all the wheels have a lip that holds the wheel to the trails. The lip – we called it a flange - is always on the inside edge of the wheel, and that means any time the cart pushes to one side or the other, the flange stops it from coming off the rail.Now, you have.