She offered to come by after school to try and ‘take my mind off of things’, but sex just wasn’t appealing after what I walked in on. Mariola le...t to run errands, since I was already there to watch Kelly. Kelly really was being so nice. She’d sit watching TV with me, trying to make me laugh, but it just wasn’t happening.“Do you want a blow job?” She asked out of nowhere, unsure of herself.“What ... really?” I was surprised, I didn’t think she would be able to do that.“Ya. I can’t use my hands,. Then she paused, her eyes narrowing. ‘Gatorade?’ she asked in confusion. ‘Better for dehydration, Darlin’, car break down?’ She swallowed another gulp of Gatorade and glared at him. ‘Nope, decided to drive out into the middle of the desert and stay in the blistering heat just to see if I could!’ The writer, he decided, reading her sarcasm instantly. His old pal Arnold Green had conned him into taking her on for a few weeks so she could study ‘The Cowboy Way’. He wasn’t told much beyond the fact. I looked in the mirror and saw the girl I wanted tobe that day.She was wearing a pretty blue dress that came to just above her knees. Ithad short puffy sleeves with elastic cuffs, a peter pan collar, andflowers embroidered on the snug bodice. The waist was snug: although mysister is older than I, we are pretty much the same size. Past dressingtells me that. The skirt had three tiers of lace edged ruffles and cameto just above my knees. I sat on my bed to put her shoes and socks on; the skirt. ‘Are you hungry?’ ‘I mean…’ she looked around, found the clock, laughed. It was 2 in the morning. ‘I guess I am, actually.’ ‘I brought you leftovers.’ And with that, he was out of the room. Liesel massaged the bridge of her nose, then stared blankly at the door, wondering. It was then that she looked down at his shirt and remembered to be embarrassed. Just in time for Cole to reenter the room. He turned on the light, and she squinted. He was holding a plate and a glass and sat next to her on.