Flora, though, had a bunch of pimples that looked similar to what Alice had, but they looked different somehow. Curious, Alice reached up and pinched ...ne, which caused a small steam of blood to leak out of it. She yanked her hand back as if she'd been bitten by a snake. She knew she cursed for real then, but it was so long, with so many four letter words in it, she wasn't actually sure just what it was she'd said."We've all been infected," Ellen noted concisely."Not only that, but we have. . -Brooke. I threw my phone down and stomped downstairs heated as ever and eat my food as if I was a prisoner.__________________________________________________________ After two months, I still had been thinking about her, with only one month of summer left, I was running out of time to see her before school started, I had to do something. I sat there in my bed after waking up from a well deserved sleep. I hadn't left my house at all scince what happened with Brooke. I was too depressed. A couple of years before, something had changed. All Kacey knew was that shed asked to go to some kind of party, and her parents had said no, that she was too young, especially to be out unsupervised that late. Liz, in an unprecedented act, defied her parents, and sneaked out of the house, and went to the party, anyway. Shed come back home, sneaking back in through the window, at nearly dawn. She woke Kacey, and told her how incredible the night had been, and that shed grown up over the past. Diesel costs money.Sure ... I’m rich ... always have been. Cyn has big bucks, too. But Waste Not Want Not. Lessons learnt at mothers knee ... yup.I like ice cream ... I like it at odd times ... stores aren’t always open when I want it. I keep ice cream in the freezer ... when plugged into shore power. At sea I forgo the treat. Propane freezers work on gas ... and our onboard freezer is tri-powered ... house current, 12v and propane.Propane explodes, all it takes is a spark ... nope ... ain’t.