Alex noticed this change immediately but he was enjoying it too much to say anything about it to Chloe.One day Chloe arrived for a tutoring session wi...h Alex, this one happened to be on a Saturday. Alex met Chloe at the door, it seemed his parents were away for the day but they had insisted that Alex should stay for his tutoring session. So it was Alex himself who met Chloe at the door and when he informed her that his parents were not home and would not be for the entire day, the girl felt a. "Joe recoiled from the man holding the syringe and told him,"No, I've slept enough, I don't want to sleep, don't give me that." I'm sorry, Ma'am, but it's the Doctor's orders." No, NO! I won't do it, I WON'T sleep my life away!"When Joe shouted, a U.S. Marine, suited, booted, and strapped stepped inand looked with resolute purpose at Joe. Seeing that, his resolvecollapsed. Joe thought to himself,(Maybe I could take the Navy fairy, but that groundpone Gyrene will makeme eat this bunk.)Joe rolled. Tyrone Willis. He'd finished fourth in State to my third last year. And he'd won every match this year. I had two losses. He wasn't above trash talk.Tyrone was the only black kid on the team and one of only three or four in the district. I'm talking about swimming. In some schools over 50% of the football team was black.While he would never make the cut for linebacker on the varsity team, he did have muscles where I had nothing. With those shoulders, he could probably tie a rope around his neck. Ryandidn't stop to wonder how Sister Chastity could have the number of adirect line available only to selected colleagues and family members. Heasked to speak to his father on an urgent personal matter. If theassistant was at all perturbed by hearing a stranger's voice, she didn'tshow it. The connection was made and just seconds later Ryan heard thefamiliar clipped tones of his father.Ryan hesitated, his mouth suddenly dry. He had been rehearsing all daywhat he would say if he got the chance..