“That is SO COOL!”Wei was struck speechless. She just watched as the little girl took her T-shirt off and greeted another little girl in a dress. ...nly now Wei realized that the little girl she’d been talking to must be a little boy.“Hey P ... Lucy,” the shirtless child announced, “a gentlemen’s club is a strip club, and this beautiful girl is a stripper!”Wei watched as Lucy got the same awestruck expression as the shirtless child.“Really?” Lucy almost shouted. “Wow, I wish I was eighteen so I. "Sure!"They sit in a nearby stone bench, facing the river.Philip looks at Ilene, and he is mesmerized by how beautiful she is. During these last weeks, he almost forgot how attractive she is. She's really beautiful. Her pale skin, her long, straight, black hair, her light freckles, her graceful skinniness, her dark eyes...Philip kisses Ilene, slowly, on the lips.Ilene kisses him back, and smiles at him."You are the most beautiful girl in the world, Ilene. I love you."Ilene's eyes seem to water. "You wouldn't be you if the bloodshed didn't bother you. I don't want you to become that cynical person who is immune to it. I wish I hadn't. It weighs on me, even when I know it's necessary to kill someone to defend us. I don't want you to live with it. Let us defend you."I pulled him down for a kiss, and felt his armoured arms wrap around my waist gently. "So what you're saying is you have a thing for pansies?" Just one."I gave him an Eskimo kiss, rubbing his nose with mine, which made him. I wasn’t sure what Charmaine had planned to do since she was doing the polling and didn’t raise her hand. “Now, have you looked at the cost of dorm rooms? They cost between nine and twelve thousand for the school year. Keep in mind that is room and board. You get meals at some level. The very cheapest rooms are what they call expanded living. Nice name, but it means that instead of two in a dorm room, there are three. Same room-size, just more crowded.”“Ten grand for a year of room and board.