"Shoot, I don't need a wish, I have everything I want!" and she hugged him to her body. She was beginning to get very stoned and excited thinking of w...at was to come. The person she had loved over ten years and it just came to her that day. "Ben, take off your pants. It's time," she told him with a smile.Ben stood up, pulling off his shoes and pants. "Jen, I'm so excited!" he said as he sat back down pulling her on his lap."Let me take off my things and you can hug me all you want," she replied. Clare instantly looked better."We have already promised not to get pregnant until Clare and Cathleen are seventeen," Shannon told our Mothers."That's very good, Dear," Aunt Sara said. "We were seventeen when we got pregnant the first time, although God only knows, we would have gotten pregnant before that if Katie and Margie hadn't made us wait." Yes!" Clare said in a dreamy voice. "I would have Michael's baby now just like Gretchen does if Michael hadn't made me promise to wait." Gretchen? Who. Mr. Dawson was a rather short, chubby man with very short black hair and his round face always wore a friendly smile for me. I was sure he was in his 50’s but not sure of his exact age. Graham talked of him and Mr. Lars often as they had been friends for a long time. Mr. Lars, however, was 62 years old. I knew this because Graham and I had gone to his birthday last week. He was quite good looking and was very tall and lean. His grey hair was thick and curly, the kind you want to run your. . unusual... we are," said Kathy.It suddenly occurred to me that they had told me a deep, dark secret about their lives... a secret that could cause them real trouble."Why did you tell me that?" I asked."We're friends," said Kathy simply. "Friends don't keep secrets." Do you tell ALL your friends about... this?" I asked."Of course not," she said, a frown furrowing her brow. "I suppose we don't have all that many friends, really. But then you came along and I knew there was some reason for it,.