“Luscious?” I threw out another.“Ooh yea.” Blossom said in a sultry voice as she wiggled her eyebrows.“Mouth-watering?” Lynn added.“Fing...r-licking good?” I said with a heavy southern accent.“Alright already!” Erin raised her arms in surrender.“Erin, YOU need to talk to us. We are going to be shooting in the dark hoping to hit the target, but you know what is wrong. You know. When we started this relationship, it was you who was not sure. When Lynn had the incident, you were the one who knew she. ” “Tom, shut your mouth again and get us a table.” All the tables were being used but Tom glared at a couple town folk and they decided they weren’t thirsty anymore and got up and left. After we got the drinks all arranged and sat down Tom leaned over to me and muttered “Horace, what in hell is going on? Are you taking these girls to Sante Fe?” “What did you call him?” shrieked Sandra. “I called him Horace, that’s his name, isn’t it?” The bar rang with peals of laughter from the girls and even. ”“Do I have to wear a bra?”“Yeah, you should probably holster the girls.”“OK. As long as you promise to let them loose and make them feel better when we get home.”“I promise.”“Good, go get undressed. I have a nice salad all ready for you.”“A salad?”“Yup. A nice kale and seaweed salad.”I released her butt and dropped my hands to my sides, shivers going down my spine.“Really?”The question was full of defeat and sorrow.“No. How about spinach and jicama and steak with a nice blackberry and walnut. Funny how liberating it was to rebel against the values I had been taught and to actually discover a new freedom. First period was gym. Daniel was in my gym class and our gym teacher didnt really care what we did as long as we showed up. Neither of us were interested in anything athletic so we talked or studied together, sometimes talking about church because we had the same youth pastor, his older brother. Daniel wore a ring, too, symbolizing his oath to wait until marriage. I planned on.