”Sandy whispered back, “But we know what their plan is, don’t we?”“No. We think we know, but the note didn’t specifically mention anything...about sex, it just implied it. And it didn’t say, condom, it said protection. I don’t know what else it could mean, but if we’re going to crash their little party, we’d betted know what we’re talking about. We make sure, THEN we act.”Kenny crouched down behind a huge spruce. Sandy sat beside him on her rolled up sleeping bag, and said, “You say act. Just. "It's just a car. Kinda noisy."I stared at him like he'd just said the world was shaped like red. It made no sense whatsoever."You like it? All original, except for a few little additions," Steve's dad was justifiably proud. "I've had it since I was 19, my first real car and it was a mess!" Got the original three fifty four transmission?" Scott asked, desperately wanting to pop the hood, I could tell."Yep, but I had to pull it off a '66 Satellite, you believe that? Some guy wrapped the front. Old lady Heloise was out the door in moments watching the k**s darting this way and that, trying to get out of her sight before she blew up. Oh man, she was dressed in her jogging outfit, too: leggings of that purple color that all the girls at school called plum, and a white cropped sweatshirt with some sort of kitty design on it. But those weren't running shoes, maybe they were just for around the house. "Clayton Denny!" she called out. "Don't think that I didn't see you!" But before she. It'd be different if she lived in town. If she had access to other people he had absolutely no doubt she would thrive.But out here, where there were no roads and no people, for miles ... Off the grid, winters are true tests of survival, Ben thought. It could frequently be fifteen below zero out here, and sometimes even reached sixty below; people who underestimate what it takes to survive in an extreme climate die. Because out here, you can't pick up the phone if you get in trouble. Ben raised.