"What?" You know damn well what! Could you be at least halfway decent to my friends. God you act like you have something crammed up your ass every tim... Raquel is around! Show a little respect"Alicia knew she was wrong. She didn't say anything the rest of the drive there. No one did. When we finally reached the front of the mall she dropped us off. We didn't even bother thanking her since she was being such a bitch. We just walked into the mall. "So where do you wanna go first?", Raquel asked."I. HiMe: thanks for chatting with me Barbara: npMe: I hope I answered all your questions lolBarbara: you more than answered them Me: your screen names Barbara and that’s funny because that was the teacher’s first name the ssbbw teacher I had who I was telling you aboutBarbara: that’s why I was asking you those questionsMe: why what do you meanBarbara: after everything you said about your teacher I wanted to see if you’re the student I thought you areMe: (I didn’t type anything back when I read. "For what?" For being there." I wouldn't be anywhere else David."We pulled up outside the cottage and I groaned."Jesus." Come on," she grabbed my hand and practically dragged me into the rubble, "It's not that bad."She was right too, the living room had all but disappeared, huge sheets of heavy duty polythene hung in place of the outside wall and the roof above sagged threateningly."We can do it David, you know we can," she tugged my arm again and I yelled in pain."Oh my God, I'm sorry darling. Putin chose to stand down, when faced with the choice of fighting to retain control of oil shipping in the Black Sea. His move shocked everyone and further depressed oil prices. Analysts had set the ceiling of a barrel of crude at forty eight to fifty dollars a barrel – long term. Now it looked like it would settle at around forty-four.If you bought oil futures, one thing you couldn't do was buy Russian oil six months out. Putin refused to allow futures trading on his oil, as he was betting.