Her new foster friend Angela explained to her that Justin was "off limits" and was her own personal property. Sally had to smile when she heard that. ...ngela was talking about the cute boy as if she owned him lock, stock, and barrel.When they were up in their bedroom that night, Angela showed her the assortment of knickers she wore to school. They were all cut the same and seemed a little smaller than she would have expected for a girl of Angela's stature.Angela took off her school uniform skirt. I became obsessed with my studies (I had decided that I wanted to be an accountant just like my father), and refocused all of my outside school activities to purely academic ones instead of athletic ones. Once I saw that Becky had no interest whatsoever in watching me pitch for our school baseball team the next spring, I dropped the sport to the considerable dismay of my coach, and instead became active in the Astronomy, Science, Math and Chess clubs instead. Tony had destroyed any love I might. He had a rifle slung on his back, but he wouldn’t want to waste a bullet on the likes of me.“Yuri,” he replied.“Are you on your own, or is there a group of you?” We did get a few loners, but most were in groups.“Can you get us out? There are fifty of us, and some of us are too ill to walk far.”Fifty! That was big. The largest group we’d seen before was about a dozen. “OK, we can get you all out, but helping that many will need some setting up. I’ll take you to talk to the corporal.” He nodded. Lucy Miller, I said to myself while driving, you'll go there, and you'll do this. How hard could it be?And there it was.Greenhills Water World. A small, but nice public pool in Greenhill, Arizona.I parked my car on the parking lot, grabbed my bag, and closed Matilda's door with a bang. I walked over the crunching, brilliantly white gravel to the entrance.I smiled, innocently, as I stepped in, ignorant to the fate that was waiting inside for me.I went to the changing room, nervously, and closed.