For the first day or two, I sat quietly in the periphery and watched all of the brain doctors do their thing. The second and third opinions weren't an... more optimistic than Mary and Andrew's initial one."Poor dear!" Was the kindest comment I heard, and I'm 85% sure I heard all of the doc's conferring later in private and suggesting that dying (soon) in the bug house might just be the kindest solution for everyone involved. Amy, who was in closer eavesdropping range than me, did hear most of the. I grabbed my MP3 player and turned on some tunes. I calmed down some after a half hour. Julie was right. I had been thoughtless to the girl I claimed to love. How could I blame her for this? The two of us had talked about how important it was to communicate. I had focused so exclusively on football and school that I had no time left for my girlfriend.I was still listening to music when my family came home from church. Mom stopped by my room before she went downstairs to get lunch. Mom asked,. . . last week and I just caught him looking at me again. He's missed four kicks already. Three games and he's missed four kicks! If we don't do something to make him quit, he's gonna keep costing us games." Taylor responded with a look of disgust and stormed out of the room. It was about this time that I realized that I had been tied to the bench around my chest and arms on my back. Suddenly, I was startled by something soft and wet touching the back of my head. I turned my head from Hernandez. She relaxed, not paying attention to the last two dancers. Instead she wondered where Anne had gone to. Finally, the DJ called them all back onstage. In their pre-competition quickie meeting, the DJ had told the girls to come onstage as close to nude as possible, but to be covered up. Most of the girls put their clothes on, but no underwear. A couple, Monique included, wore only their underwear. Wanda chose to wear the overcoat over her naked body. Third prize, $10, went to Sally Anne, the.