There's a razor and shaving cream too, which I had thought was just for my pussy, and an electric razor to use on my head. I lay in bed for a while th...nking. Thinking about how natural this all seems to me now, how easily I seem to have fallen in to the routine here, how easy it's been to submerge myself in the rules and the rituals. Why couldn't Joe and I do any of this? Why couldn't we even talk about this? He always seemed kind, maybe just a bit preoccupied with work, but somehow whenever I. . I just want to... Umm..."I really felt for Scott, he had never known why I had pushed him, andalmost everyone else away. We had been really close, almost as close asJen and I were. We had met shortly after Mom had remarried and moved us toStarkville. Pop thought it would be a good idea to get me into scouting,since I had been an extremely outdoors kind of kid. Growing up in a ruralarea south of Birmingham, AL, I had spent most of my time running throughthe woods with my cousins. I had met. So I stayed out of it until they had come up with a number they all agreed on.When we finished breakfast, Juan Carlos told us, “Now, we’re going to need machinery.”Tom seemed to be anxious about something as he looked over at me and grinned. Then he tossed a folded newspaper over in front of me. I picked it up and looked it over, then on the back page where he had it folded over to hide it, I saw what he was already grinning about. There was a half page advertisement.“Ford Automobile Dealer in. “They should have won this game quite easily!”“I agree,” Dave said. “I don’t get it!”“Well, I’m going to head back to IIT,” Jorge said.“Do you need a ride?” I asked.“Thanks, but not this time; I bought a car! The money I made from IITRI plus what you guys are throwing my way gave me enough money to get a used Fiat wagon. It’s a Mirafiori. I picked it up on Saturday morning. I figured a used car suited me better.”“Great! That’ll make it easier for you to get here, and you won’t have to rely on.