It wasn't until a car accident on the way home from her prom that she realised just how special she truly was. After the car had been slammed off the ...oad by a runaway eighteen-wheeler, caught between two tree trunks as a small fire began to burn from the shorted electrics, Gloria found herself uninjured apart from a few very superficial scratches.After battering her way out of the wreckage she then ripped the car apart with her bare hands in order to rescue her boyfriend, but it was already. ????? Still using only her hands, Janie gentlycleansed my face, and what was usually the most intimate moment of our day tookon a strained quality as her trembling fingers seemed to be pleading with mefor mercy.? I knew she wanted to givefree rein to an emotional impulse to embrace me, or rain kisses over me, as shealways did when she was profoundly sorry.?But she was smart enough to refrain, and went off to make my breakfastwith a pathetic slump to her shoulders.????? I no longer gave Janie. She glanced at the clock, Shit! she thought, quickly getting dressed and rushing out the door.After meeting up with her group of friends, sitting through the opening assembly, choosing lockers, and reading her class schedule, her heart dropped as she saw that she wouldn't be seeing Mr.Conner until the end of that day. Luckily, she was distracted by all of the catching up, stories, gossiping, and checking out of the new boys in school. Finally, her moment came. English, last block.Excitedly she. At first annoyed that even on a date she could not escape algebra, she soon realized that the boy beside her was explaining things so clearly she quickly grasped the principles involved. Jim sensed this, and somehow found the courage to do what the other boys had done long ago: he slipped an arm around his date."Hey! What's going on back there? You two having a private conversation?" The voice was that of Tom Banks, Jim's friend from bowling Jim and Ginny had been talking low enough that.