They saved enough for one last dinner at the diner. Clipper had some ideas about going up the mountain a ways and panning for gold in the creeks and r...vers that flowed down the mountain. Surely gold was still worth something in today’s economy, he thought, since the economy ran on gold now. On the way back out of town he stopped at the store and asked Mr. Peck if anyone bought gold anymore. Yes, the man replied, the assayer stops by the last Saturday of each month. More than a few people in the. .The shoes were the white sling backs that I had bought for the blueoutfit and I slipped them on, then Victoria pulled the dress from herwardrobe. My mouth fell open, I have never seen anything quite sooutrageous, so feminine, so girly. I never uttered a word as she helpedme into it and zipped it up at the back. It took a bit of effort as thedress seemed to be a shade tight but once it was on I stared into thefull length mirror.It was a shock, she was correct. It was girly, very girly but. I think she is being nice and doesn't want to 'wake' me up by pushing to hard on my arm. After a few moments she gives up and goes back to playing on her phone.One of the lady's kids is now talking to Jane. I'm not really listening to what the kid is saying. The kid just keeps talking on and on, not even giving Jane anytime to respond. I'm getting annoyed and the kid is not even talking to me.The bus driver turns up the music since the bus is rather loud from being full of people talking.I take. I turned slightly to make sure he was still there and he was. I stopped next to the step and looked up pretending that I wanted something from up higher. I turned slightly towards him without looking at him and raised a leg onto the top of the step. This had the advantage of hiking my skirt up my thighs almost to the top of my legs. Out of my side vision I could see that he was slowing and probably saying to himself yes go on get on the fucking step so that I can walk past and look under you.