I pondered last night’s Go5 discussion about her and realized that I was looking forward to tonight. That reminded me that I’d have to ask Dad and...the Moms to stay in their room after going to bed.I woke again sometime later when I heard Liya whispering at Charlize.“You don’t have to whisper,” I said.“Ah, good. I didn’t want to wake you, but I’ve really got to pee.”With that, Charlize pulled the covers off her ... and me, climbed over me, and headed to the bathroom.Liya asked, “Are we really. Driving out of the city, en route to the college, I looked out the taxi’s windows, studied the barren environs, its farms, factories, square blocks of dead apartment buildings. Along the way I saw scattered clumps of withered old men, cigarettes dangling from their mouths, the men seated on plastic stools, selling fruit and vegetables from baskets alongside the road.I saw several active and abandoned construction sites and occasional small hills, many of which appeared to have been mined; the. She had run at a clip of eight and a half minutes per mile, easily outdistancing Jack over the course of thirty minutes. Jack's personal best was just under nine minutes for a mile. It had been a good workout, and Jack enjoyed it more knowing that with Denise there was none of the competitiveness that was apparent with his male friends.Jack had gone home about 3:45 to shower with full intentions of doing homework; things didn't happen that way. Upon arriving at his apartment, he found Craig. And, in that afternoon, I never felt closer to another person. Well, when the sun dipped on the horizon and evening came on I thought that afternoon had passed too quick for me. I felt different inside and I tried to tell Joan how it was and I found I couldn’t get the words right but it didn’t matter because Joan seemed to know anyway. The next day she took a stalk of that long dry yellow grass, broke it into two parts and made each part into a small circle so that they looked a little like.