Freckles on her nose and cheeks added to her child-like image. As far as I could tell, she didn't have any 'love bumps', but it was kind of hard to te...l because she always wore loose shirts and blouses. Most days she wore shorts, and I couldn't help but notice that her legs were losing that pre-pubescent skinniness that very young girls seem to have. Her calves and thighs were beginning to develop some curves and definition.The first time I began to feel differently about her occurred about a. It surprised me, but not near as muchas what she did next, she immediately just stepped up to me and grabbedme in a hug. Not sure what to do I just hugged her back while Jen andAlicia just stared at us.When she let me go she of course had a lot of questions, but we had tokeep it short to not draw suspicion. I told her what I had gone throughand that I intended to come back to school next semester as Rebecca. Shehad a lot of concerns but fished an attorney's card out of her bag andtold me to. You saw how weak he is. What do you think, Mom?’ ‘I don’t think I could refuse that boy anything after today. If he’s okay with it, and if he needs help, he’ll be most welcome in our home. Will he be able to walk at all?’ ‘Steve should be ambulatory,’ responded Laura. ‘What he’s going to require is having his wounds cleaned and bandaged a couple times a day for a week or two. He’s a fast healer, but it’s important that we prevent infection in his wounds. I never treated bullet wounds before,. I took a couple of weeks off work. There were things that needed to be done around the house. Nothing major, just several small things. My husband was away at a conference and would not be back until sometime the following afternoon, so I had time alone to get a few little rather annoying jobs done. I had been to the local DIY store and bought several pots of paint and rather a lot of wallpaper. David was not very handy at certain things, so the decorating was down to me. I had decided to.