I don’t think even she remembered there was a girl involved in the rope thing. For her, the problem was boys. So Lisa and I hung out together in the...schoolyard, and she walked home as far as the library, where we’d go our separate ways. We’d sneak touches at each other’s hands, but that was all. I told her about being whipped, and the other shit Ransom did to me, and we worried about what to do.Lisa agreed the adults were no help. No one would believe me if I told them what Father Ransom was. On more than one occasion that stash of junk had supplied something Bobby needed.The faucet needed a new washer, which Bobby had brought, so the job went quickly. Bobby went back to the Nickerson house. Her car was there, but no one answered the door. Afraid she’d fallen from the ladder he’d set up for her to use while painting up around the ceiling, he tried the door, and found it open. Loud music assailed his ears. The strident repetitive synthesizer notes of Won’t Get Fooled Again, by the. She swiftly tiptoed up the stairs, like a floating ballerina and he followed suit from below, bounding upward, two steps at a time.Flinging open the first door in sight she stepped into a dark room, the moonlight falling upon a pile of coats on top of a bed in front of her. Leaving lights off she stepped forwards against the bed, in a shaft of pale moonlight.Not a second later he entered the room, steeping right up behind her, breathing heavily against her neck, drinking in her smell.The sound. "Well, I was thinking a perm, to give him the type of curls I've talkedabout getting in the past, before I decided I wanted to buzz mine off.If you can, maybe just some long layers, so he doesn't lose too muchlength. Wouldn't he look gorgeous with hair like that actress KeriRussell from Felicity, before she cut her long curls off? Since he'sgoing to keep growing it, his hair should be down to almost the middleof his back in another few months. And, since you do ear piercing, heshould have at.