Then amber came in and Michelle gave her a baleful star. There was noway she would ever leave this boy and Amber alone in the same room.Amber saw her ...uehrer with tears in her eyes holding a small boy. Toher this was a sign of weakness, not that she was capable of everhurting Michelle again. She doubted she could. She wouldn't even thinkof it.Michelle said, "This boy needed protecting. I am going to take up thatresponsibility. That is our premise for our party. What do you want?"She said, "You. ” Jenna sat down on a folding chair while Tristan moved to stand behind her. He picked up a hair brush from a small table nearby and said, “I just need to take care of your hair a little bit so it doesn’t fall and cover your face in the shots. I hope you don’t mind.” She anxiously bit her lip just a little at the thought. “No, I don’t mind. Do what you need to do.” He began brushing her hair in long delicate strokes that tugged softly on her scalp. His free hand worked to steady her head and. Her eyes followed the motion and she saw the way that the tendons in his arm rippled as he did it, and how his pectoral muscles gave and bounced just a little as they came right back after he’d wiped them just as he’d taken another step. If he did that again, she was sure that she’d scream. Kayla smiled to herself and decided that beach or no beach, this was close enough. She quickly selected a song that she’d heard just a minute before. She’d liked it enough to have listened to it three times. She used oodles of hairspray to keep it in place. Her hair wasblack and she dyed it to where in the sunlight it actually looked blue-black. Our house was single story while hers was two-story. As a matterof fact it was the only two-story on the entire block. She often invitedme over to talk after we both got home from school. It didn't take longfor me to let her know how much I liked her hair. She asked me to explainto her why I liked it so much. I told her that I had always liked hairand cool.