When I returned I turned my back and pulled my sneakers and socks and jeans off and rolled them up and placed them on the front seat, climbed in the b...ck door and slid under the sheet. I hadn't slept this close to Mom in years, and the presence of her barely clothed body so close to mine was uncomfortable. Mom didn't seem to notice anything out of the ordinary, talking about how excited she was to be going to Aunt Sarah's. Sarah was four years younger than Mom, and I hadn't seen her in five. Grades K through 12 is thirteen grades. At 20 per grade, that's 260, so let's say 300. Say there are five times twenty, or one hundred children below kindergarten age. Say 400 kids total. If families had two kids each, then there would be 400 parents. Say there are half that many, or 200 people, without kids. Four, eight, that's one thousand people, adults and children. Does that sound about right?"Marcie said, "I thought there were about 700 living in town. That would make 300 living outside. I felt haggard, and that piled on top of guilt was no good thing. Why had I kissed him, I'd given myself away for nothing, and Maxie had no reason to protect my interests now that I'd done that to him. Even against his darker skin his injuries were obvious. All registration I tongued my split lip. It hurt like shit, but it distracted me from more complex pain.The morning was hell. Maxie winced whenever he tried to use his left hand and I felt an echoing pain in my gut when I thought of it as my. And since her encounter with Molly two weeks earlier, where she and the 14 year old pupil had entertained a large number of boys (not to mention several teacher’s) in the school playground, her attitude had become relaxed further still.Her femininity, and the dignified grace of her posture that suggested a well-to-do background, she knew were her most attractive qualities. Whilst her figure hugging dresses, and flowing summer skirts often helped accentuate them, so did pretty lingerie and.