And give me a Jack D up, icewater on the side, a bacon cheeseburger medium, no fries but slaw if you got any, and a draft.’ Turning to the girl, ‘...ou?’ ‘Same, and two Tylenol. And the check.’ ‘You don’ needta do that.’ ‘I know, but I did.’ ‘You have a name?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘Well, what the fuck is it? I don’t wanna keep callin’ you ‘you’.’ ‘Melissa, but my real name is Scout.’ ‘Scout? What the fuck is that supposed to mean?’ ”To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout.’ ‘Tequila Mockingbird? How do they make that?’. ?That was nothing? I said and now began to pull the brush out. The bristles had all been folded flat on insertion but as I pulled on the handle the bristles now dug in to her tender insides and naturally expanded to their full diameter before scraping and flicking out. ?Mmm argh mmm argh owe?. Now she really was singing! I repeated this twice more, and each time the volume of pain increased.?I think that will do for now? I said. ?Stand-up and Sam, rinse her off please and use cold water?. ?Good. She had gone out for the evening with the "girls" and I had been snooping in her room for some magazines I knew my dad used to have before he died. (My dad was killed in an auto accident three years ago, when I was only thirteen.) I had gone through her dresser drawers and hadn't found anything when I happened to see some old magazines under a shoe box on her closet shelf. I reached up to pull them down and the shoe box tumbled to the floor, spilling the contents on the floor. There were a. That made me laugh. ‘Alicia, you really are my Dream-Girl. You know that?’ ‘I hope so.’ And I hauled ass to work and made it ten minutes early — with a ridiculous grin I could not wipe off my face if I tried. I got there even before Don and Lenny showed up. Don gave me instructions for the day when he arrived and he and Lenny both stayed and worked at the loft too. I am not sure what they were doing, but I was ripping down dry wall, which was kind of a nasty job, but it was cool to see the old.