Holy Shit, look at that one." I pointed upwards towards a big streak of light that seemingly exploded and filled the sky with smaller streamers of lig...t. That was what happened when the meteors actually hit earth's atmosphere and burned up.As we started the car to drive back it was already very late. "Josh, what did you mean, someone like me," she asked. "Seriously." You're not the kind of girl, that guys run games on," I said."You mean I'm some kind of stuck up, chick who doesn't like to have. "More than anything."****I woke up the next morning thinking of everything that had happened theday before. An older man had asked me out on a date and I had accepted. My mother had told her friends and some of my relatives that I was in theprocess of becoming a middle-aged woman. Things like this happen to boysevery week. Right?Of course not. Things like this don't happen to boys every week, butthey sure as hell were happening to me. I reached for my first cigaretteof the day not because. “Stay right there and keep those eyes shut. Don’t you move a muscle.” Like she had anywhere to go … She knelt with her hands resting lightly on her bare thighs, scared of and craving what was next. Two fingers pincered into her stuffed mouth. “Open that pretty mouth wide. And keep it open.”The sodden ball of netting was extracted deftly, leaving her mouth vacant and ready. Gavin’s hand closed to the back of Brooke’s head and guided her where she’d known she was going—onto hard pulsing. He was still in his business suit from the office. It was nothing flashy. It was his working clothes. She ripped the envelope open. Her eyes grew big when she was reading it. Her arms shot into the air with little fists of her slender teenage fingers. She jumped up and full body hugged her father. His face turned slightly red and a big proud smile hushed over his face.She slunk down on her chair to read the card in detail to soak in everything about the gift. Something made her pause. She.