This time Tabitha blushes, and it’s a true blush. She is flattered that he recognizes her. She nods.“I thought so,” he murmurs. “Damn, you are...fucking sexy and what you did was even sexier.”“It was spur of the moment,” she offers.“I bet it was,” the man says grinning. “Can I buy you a drink?”Tabitha picks up her glass and shakes it in the air. “Still drinking this one.”“That’s alright, I get your next one,” he says. Then he offers the girl his hand, “I’m Slade.”“Tabitha,” the teen says taking. He hadn't realized it was dark, he could see perfectly fine.Mrs. Delgado told him that it was better to disturb somebody if meant that he wouldn't hurt himself in the dark.A thought resonated through him—be careful. He needed to discover just how different he really was. Broken Creek Boys Ranch was the perfect laboratory. His fellow ranchers were some of the most naturally suspicious people that he'd ever met so he became a keen observer of human behavior. When some of the older boys were. Where to?JC told the cabbie to take him home - or at least where home was ninemonths earlier."Hey, that's a pretty ritzy part of town! But it's also a thirty buckfare. Your trick must be loaded! You got that kind of money on you? Ifso, ya better show it to me - I ain't going that far on a freebie!"JC opened the small purse, only to find that Marilee had lied! Thepurse contained only a makeup compact, a lipstick, a stick of gum, adriver's license (with her (his?) picture and the name "Jesse. She cast her eyes towards her father's house. She could see her step mother on the porch, sat in her usual place. She was reading also, her legs crossed and her left foot moving slightly in the air. Lucy had always appreciated and bonded with her step mother, unlike her elder sister Corrin. Her father had remarried when she was still a child and as such Lucy had always found her relationship with Claire stronger than Corrin had. Whereas Corrin treated Lucy with a certain degree of cold.