.. who knows?" Exactly," I said. "I know of some high-school romances that went on to be long, happy marriages. Outliers." Uh-huh. If I was going into...sociology or psychology, it would be interesting to study that whole high school romance thing." She smiled softly. "It's a whole lot easier to do that when I can come home at the end of the day KNOWING that I'm not a participant, no matter how often I get asked..." Still getting asked?" I questioned. Another conversation we'd had pretty. "He looked at me like he had just won the lotto and said, "I'll takethat bet."I reached out my hand to shake his and said, "Deal."Dad checked me in to school and we were about to leave when I had toask about dress-code regarding hair length on boys.The lady that checked me in for school said, "No hair length rule forboys unless you are in JR ROTC," and asked, "Do want to do that?"I turned and looked at dad said, "No way," and with the biggest smile,"You lose!"On the way home I asked if he was. Kal took a steadying breath as he watched Bea fly away, shaking his head he turned and walked past Ikuno to go pick up his pants that were lying next to Aradelle. The alarune had a look of sadness on her face as she watched Kal, he could tell that she wanted to reach out and embrace him as he got closer but figured that her lack of experience with males kept her rooted from uncertainty.“I’m sorry, Kal,” said Ikuno from behind him sounding truly contrite, she hadn’t moved from when she put her. He prompted, "You’d better start at the beginning Jill because if you have done anything the police might need to know about, then I want to know too. If I’m and sheltering a criminal, then I need to cover my arse." Well he’s in hospital and I didn’t actually do it to him, but perhaps I could have done a little more to prevent it." Jill started. "What’s the matter with him? Why’s he in hospital?" Margaret asked concerned although she didn’t understand why she should be. She had taken Jill’s.