OMG it was like the very first time I had kissed a boy at school. I had the fluttering stomach and the tingling lips and it was a long, lingering, pas...ionate kiss with her hands holding my head. I had never been kissed like that before and we seemed to do it for 5-10minutes or so by which time I was experiencing a nice sensation between my legs! Eventually she stepped back and told me to undress and I remember just gazing at her mesmerised thinking how much I wanted her to make love. Ming is your best friend. You two always hang out. I know I would dothe same for my best friend when I get one."Simone's words were what Lori was afraid of happening. That the kidswould know they do not have a close bond with anyone else yet. She didnot want them to feel excluded.Then Rachel LeBlanc spoke up. Her and Simone were spending more timetogether at the David Project and she was hoping that one day those twowould hang out together. Being rejected was the only reason Rachel neverbrought. She was my first ever friend. We kissed goodnight once, for about a second. I kissed her on the cheek yesterday. I don't think that counts. We don't live close together, but we talk on the phone, we send letters and emails. I don't think anything will ever shake our friendship."You didn't say what a Carnival girl is," Ruby returned to her theme."Someone who doesn't even think about tomorrow," Kennedy said. "Love today, no heed for tomorrow, much less the day after." Put me down!" Ruby. "Mought make it if'n we kin stay out in the middle there. And if them damn'd black-sided war boats don' catch us."I looked out at the old river than was churning past, carrying a lot of limbs and such from spring floods and ice melts way upstream. The unpainted boat sat deep in the water, and its sturdy single mast and long bowsprit held flapping canvas that looked to be more mending than cloth."I'll try it, if you want?" I said, showing off for the women shamelessly."You ain't takin' my boat.