” Then he heard it again. Someone else said, “Can you believe it?” And, “Gross!” He sidled up close behind a huddle of teen boys to better h...ar them, and he heard, “. . . she sucked their cocks. All six of them.” Another boy said, “the guys from the chess club?” “No, even worse, it was the Dungeons and Dragons goofs.” “Claire just went from hottie to whore in sixty seconds.” All the boys laughed, except Shiloh. One of the mean boys turned and saw him then, “Hey, aren’t you Claire’s brother?. She said she felt nothing special but she knew the other girls wanted to see, wanted to compare their backgrounds, possible influences by the supposed “miracle”. I laughed. “I think it would be a miracle if we all got naked and went into the health baths for a dip.”[Well, no miracles here in this bath but you get the idea, sex trumps miracle(?) or maybe sex is a miracle depending on individuals]I told her what I knew about the supposed miraculous nature of the baths that sick people came to for. . why do you want to follow him to Boston?" Because... if I don't go, I'll always look back and wonder what might have been. I'll always take the path of least resistance, and never take another chance. I'll lose him again, this time for good." So, whatever reason you had for breaking up with him last year--that's no longer a factor?" No." And somehow, whether or not he wants you to go is also not a factor."Maddie rolled over onto her stomach to face Rachel. "That's not fair, and you know it.. The tube to catch my pee was worse and having them fiddle around down there while they put it in or adjusted it or whatever was totally humiliating. Not to mention having to use a diaper and have one of them clean me up and change the diaper. Ugh! I don’t want to ever go back to that so I do what they tell me, no matter how much I hate it.I wish I was a goat – a mountain goat that lives way away from any people. They get left alone with nobody staring at them all day. All they eat is grass. I.