She sizes me up thru the passenger window, then turns a reserved smile."You gonna give me a lift or you just broke down, like me?", she half laughs."Y..., how far you need to get?", I ask."As far away from life as you can take me, but I'll settle for Tahoe."I'm way too easy and say, "sure, beyond life, I'm going there too", I smirk.She likes my humor and takes a chance on me by getting in with her oversized purse-bag-thingy. "If you didn't look so cute and harmless I would've passed on the ride",. We all of us felt like we could make a difference.All through the past couple of weeks, I'd made my best efforts to stick close to Geneva Franklin and try to make sure she knew I was alive and well. Geneva might have been only 14, but she was a smart little girl, and she looked and acted somewhat older than her age. I'm pretty sure she knew what was making me so friendly. She was friendly right back, although she held back a little more than I did. She held back a little more than I would have. ." It's what? Speak up, will ya?" replied Jackson. Before he could anything else, Rico kissed him on the lips. The kiss lasted a few seconds, then Rico broke the kiss and walked away, shouting "I-I'm sorry!". Jackson was surprised and didn't move, as he saw the boy heading towards the bar, and sit on his usual spot on the counter. Jackson looked at the shirt he had on his hand, the shirt Rico had thrown away earlier. Then, he walked towards the bar, thinking about what had just happened.Rico. Erika held out her hands to each of us. We got up andwalked hand in hand with Erika in the middle of us to the V.I.P.room. We found a nice comfortable couch and the waitress took ourdrink order."Two cranberry vodkas and a Keith's please," I asked."And two Sambuccas," Erika added.Erika had parked her butt beside Kelly and it was a rather tightsqueeze. Her hand sat on Kelly's stocking clad thigh as she asked,"So what has he told you about me?" Well, he did say that you were beautiful and sexy,.