Some are ok but others really get your attention. I was making a sales call at this one particular company one day on my route. I was showing some of ...y line when she came up behind me as I was showing my products to the other women in the office. She put her hand on my shoulder to lean in and see the catalog. There was something in the touch that got my attention. As I would drop by each week we would chit chat and as every week pass by we would talk longer. We both could tell the other was. “Mom, seriously how the hell would we know about that?” Tonya asked. “Well, shit happens sometimes, you can't explain it, things just go missing sometime, so I'm just asking,” I replied. Tonya got a little defensive right there, I thought maybe she was borrowing them. Not exactly a stretch, but still that was a little weird. Over the next 3 weeks my collection seemed to get smaller and smaller, so I decided to ask Tonya if she had been borrowing them. I went into her room on Wednesday afternoon. When Glade at last collapsed into exhausted slumber, a restless Ivory stared into the dark shadows and reviewed her situation. She recognised now how happy she’d been during the time Glade and Chief Cave Lion were absent. She’d enjoyed the regular evening camaraderie with the other villagers around the blazing fires. She’d risen well to the challenge of being the village shaman and Ptarmigan had done well as the Chief’s deputy. And now what did the rest of her life have to offer? Would she and. Now it was spring of junior year. Things stayed stagnant. Weeks and weekends blurred together. Susie and I saw each other less and less, and Rachel sort of took her place, plus the occasional hookup like that girl Maria. Despite it all and despite our distance, I still felt like Susie was mine. I often wondered if we would ever start seeing each other again exclusively and even asked her at one point, but she gave me something about needing to concentrate on school. It made sense to me,.