" Another shot hit the counter above their heads."We have you outnumbered. This is my town. We're defending ourselves and you're thieves." Another sho... scattered glass over them."We don't want a fight. We'll leave everything." Cam looked wistfully at the guitar laying by his feet."Too late, you got a fight. My boys here could use some practice." Will looked to the back of the store."Steph, you ok back there?" Yeah Will. What are we gonna do?" You two watch our backs. Cam and I got this." Cam. 'Roses are red, violets are blue,I want to go to the Autumn Ball with you'The poem was signed with a signature that I could not decipher. I had noidea who had slipped the poem into my locker, but I was floating on air asI walked toward the classroom. I still didn't feel like getting involvedwith someone right now, but knowing that somebody wanted to ask me to thedance had elated me in a way that I didn't know it could.Josh had been the only person in my life whom I had truly gotten close to,and. Suddenly nobody was talking and the adults were exchanging meaningful glances. Linda's father broke the silence with "We need another tent!" the adults all had a good laugh. Linda and I blushed red.Linda was my girlfriend after that but we were pretty young and things never went much past first base. We had a lot of fun however and it lasted right up to the start of our junior year of high school. By this time Linda was the prettiest girl in school and I was the class nerd. I was on the track. Mizz Lee. “Hi, Mizz Lee. How are you today?”“Pleasantly satisfied, dear. A little creaky, but satisfied.”“You have the kids today,” I said.“Yes. I am looking forward to it. Are you too busy for me to drop by early to have lunch with you?”“Oh, no, ma’am,” I said. I didn’t add that an opportunity to dine with Mizz Lee would only be superseded by an end of the world event. “I will be looking forward to it.”She showed up with a tray of pastries, a BIG tray, which she left in the break room, and she.