It took me a bit to get over that. I went back to the house and pretended to have just come from school. There was no sign of Wendy. She must have bee... in her room. I listened as best I could when passing her door but there was no sound. I did not dare ask where she was in case I betrayed myself.Boy's turnMark came home pretty late. We had no homework. Mrs D got us to help in the kitchen. I was itching to tell Mark about Wendy but there was no real chance. At dinner Mrs D told us that Wendy was. Kind of changed your whole attitude, being leered at by sexy women who weren't women! I arrived outside DeDe Diamonds dressing room and knocked twice. "Who is it?" a breathy, very feminine voice inquired. "It's the guy you sent the note to," I replied. "Come on in, it's unlocked, " DeDe said. "I'm just changing. I'll be right with you." I walked in and shut the door behind me. Her dressing room was pretty large, with a full-length mirror, a huge makeup table,. " Suddenly she turned towards me and wrapped her arms around me in a hug. "I know, and I appreciate you telling me that. I wasted a lot of years on someone who I thought loved me, but now I know he didn't. And to think I stay faithful to that jackass all this time." Then she reached up and kissed me on the lips. I looked at her in shock, to which she responded, "What? You never noticed me checking you out when we'd all be in there watching tv? You never noticed that I'd wear really tight. The sound of the earth turning. The sound of the stars burning. Like they’ve been waiting for it, a missing piece. Something they lost once, but have found again.”“It’s like a choice,” Clay said. “Like one of those tests, the inkblot test, where you can see what you want.”“Sorta,” said Ashe.They listened together, bathed in sweat, bodies pressed close together. They heard the whoosh of the wind, the rush of the highway, the cries and howls of life in the desert. Thick adobe and plaster walls.