‘You wouldn’t have to.’ Rosanna whispered. Changing the subject, she asked, ‘How did you settle on the name Brook?’ ‘Well, I didn’t like...ocean, and stream wouldn’t do. I thought of pond, but it reminded me too much of that cold cream, minus the S, of course.’ Solace replied in mock seriousness. ‘Sol, you are so crazy!’ ‘I’m crazy? I’m not the one who left me.’ The words spilled out of Solace’s mouth before she could stop them. She felt her cheeks begin to burn. Again, she had blurted out words. “Now I’m calling bullshit,” said Brit as she glared at her boyfriend.“It’s not, though,” said Tyler. “Chicks lie to each other’s faces all the time, while guys can have a whole conversation and never look away from a fishing pole. If a man looks you in the eye and tells you something, it’s probably true. We don’t have the kind of practice chicks do at lying to each other.”“We do not lie to each other all the time,” fumed Brit.“You complimented one of your friend’s outfits the other day then. The swap was made in the parking lot and boys headed east towardsNashville in the pickup, now with the stolen Illinois plates adorningit. Driving on to Lake City, Florida where they stopped for thenight.Eating pizza and drinking cola in their motel room, the boys finalcount of the money in the gym bag was three hundred fifteen thousanddollars, less the twenty thousand for the pickup truck. They decided,correctly, that there was a police report out on the SUV as a stolenvehicle but, the. ''OMG Adorbs!!!!!!' she sent me.'Thanks,' I replied.'That's a really pretty dress and tiara,' she added.'I know, they're kind of special too. I told Jacob you guys could comeover Tuesday after I get the testing done Monday...''You haven't told him yet?''He kind of seems to be guessing something like this... well, not likethis.''Giggle, no one could,' she responded.I eventually finished talking with her and went over to the child sizeddesk that my computer now sat on. Mom had sat my tiara there.