Don't get out of character. "Well, this is kind of embarrassing..."Michelle reached out and touched his arm. "Aw, don't worry Billy. This is just betw...en the two of us. So, why is your life any more screwed up than any other thirteen-year-old?" Don't make fun of me, OK? This is hard enough already. Just let me ask this before I chicken out. Like I told you, I've grown up without a father, or older brothers. And my mom, well, she just panics every time I mention anything to do with sex. So.... "Thanks Sweetie, we will have a good time. Becky and I will be waiting for you when you get back. So go have fun, study hard, have a great game and remember no women, ever" she stressed."Yes Ma'am" I replied and got out. She got out and walked around to the driver's side and gave me a gentle kiss as she wrapped herself around me.I heard Frank's voice say "No wonder he goes berserk when someone pisses her off. Jesus, I'd cheerfully shoot someone if they made my girlfriend too pissed to send me. I think they'll have something here in an hour." I have some food that will not keep. Come eat with me and we'll see if I can get you fueled up for tomorrow."He saw the cooking apparatus and food and said to me, "You came prepared. I should have." I've been here before and tried to remember all the things I said I would bring next time." This is my first and I had no idea how bad things were down here." Where do you live?" My mother lives about fifty miles up this creek on a nice farm, I came. After surviving the plague itself, who could anything but laugh at a common cold? Lei would never laugh at a cold again. Having had a rotting corpse as only companion for so long she doubted she would ever again laugh at all. The forest bed was not a place to sleep, but Lei was too exhausted to realise she was nodding off. As it was, the stench of Oli’s decay saved Lei’s life. The bugs that would notice a delicious moth sleeping on the forest bed were far more attracted by the closeby rotting.