" Oh, I'd never think of you as a jerk. Do you want to be Julia first, or shall I?"For an hour and a half, they shared their stories. He turned the te...perature way down so they could stay in the tub longer. Yvonne came from an extremely traditional Hispanic family. Her parents expected early marriage and lots of grandchildren. She loved sports and wanted a college education and a career. She had male cousins who engaged in every form of sexual harassment on her short of rape. Her parents would. "Talith's comment dragged Lonna from her thoughts, and she blinkedblankly up at her brother. Although she understood the words that werebeing spoken, they made very little sense to her."...What's that supposed to mean?" I mean. You did this, fine. Why not let someone else finish it? I knowyou care about-" I cared about Mom," Lonna spat at her brother, daring him to repeat hisabsurd suggestion that she should let anyone take away her victory.Talith looked away. "...Mom would have wanted us to. As I open my door I hear a couple of soft clicks, and then I twist to set my feet on the ground and Hugo seems to explode out the other side. Oh, Jesus, why couldn’t he just do what the cop said?—And the cop’s pulled his gun and now he’s shooting! Shooting at Hugo! “No!” I scream and jump out to grab for his gun hand. “Officer, he’s not armed, don’t shoot!”The cop shoves me away and now he’s got the gun pointed out me. “Not armed?” he snarls. “Good. Let’s go, sister.” And he pushes me with his. ’ ‘Alright,’ I lay down propped up in one corner. ‘So what color are they?’ I blurted. He chuckled softly. ‘Grey. If I could’ve guessed we’d be matching I’d have worn my blue boxers. Wait a minute, what color is your shirt? And did you call it a button down?’ ‘Yeah I start at the top. Don’t you? And it’s like a green plaid so if anyone ruined the blue thing I guess I did.’ ‘Okay fair enough I see what you’re saying there. I do button from the top as well. You could always take it off.’ His.