But they still hadn't looked anything like Shannon's so the theory still held. She had grabbed her robe on the way out and then changed in the garage ...hen she went back for Dad's truck. Anything else? What about Allison's nightmare when I was at Mark's 'camping'? An isolated event, but still it would explain a lot. After all, I'd had the same dream about waking her up that she had. This was too weird. How was I going to figure all of this stuff out? I certainly didn't want to tell Mr. Shelby. .. solidly ... built, with short brown hair. I'd see them running most days, but never really got to know them.Later that afternoon, as we were returning from picking Sally up from school, we bumped into the 'solid' one."Hello! We haven't had a chance to speak, have we? I'm Sally McKenzie." That's my name!" Sally blurted.The woman smiled. "It's a very good name, isn't it?" She held out her hand to me."James Fletcher," I said, "and my fiancée, Betty Hardcastle." Delighted to meet you at last,". “Have you ever kissed a boy?” I asked her. She looked at me with a twinkle in her eyes. “Maybe.” “Maybe? Maybe?? That’s not an answer! If you’re going to chicken and choose truth you’ve got to at least give me a straight answer,” I told her with feigned indignation. She rolled her pretty little eyes at me. “Okay Chad. No, I’ve never kissed a boy. Happy now?” I looked at her a little more seriously. “Would you like to?” Stephanie started to blush; I watched the heat creep up her face. “That’s. Come sit with us,” said the jock guys sitting a few rows away from me.I realized I was about to lose my chance to have the new girl sit next to me. I couldn’t! I forced my head up, as if coming out of a dream and caught sight of her. She was bizarrely beautiful! She was small, like a younger girl, both in height and in frame. She wore a school uniform but it had obviously been modified to the point of being barely legal, and I wondered how they let her get away with it. She had decorated the.