She had already squirted some cream on her hand as she neared Jessica. “Bend over.” Leah commanded as she sat herself down behind her friend, gent...y stroking away some locks of wavy hair from her friend’s neck. “Hey Matt, you two left the table pretty fast.” Lily smilingly said to him as he sat himself down between the girls. He looked Lily in the face and sent her a smile back, knowing better than to react to her remarks. “Ouch!” Jessica groaned as Leah’s hands touched her back. --- “I’ll. Time passed. We came into contact more and more often. She made a habit of coming into Algebra LG day and sitting beside me, and as we were studying French under the same teacher, we took up seats next to one another.It was all so innocent.Finally, after Christmas / New Year's holiday hullabaloo was done, and January was nearing its end, Sally approached me one day, and turned my world upside down."Juh, Jeff?" she stammered, blushing.I grinned. "Miss Sally! How are you?" I replied.Her blush. What seemed like years, the days slowly passed, and finally, it was Friday. Blair and I stood on the porch waving goodbye to our parents as they pulled out of the driveway. They drove off and Blair and I walked back into the house. Party time! We both shouted, and with that, I ordered us a pizza, and brought the vodka down from my room. Ewww Joe the vodka stinks… Im not drinking that. Blair said while making a face. Relax. I poured some orange juice into a glass, mixed in some vodka, and Blair. Sloane took me out for Tuesday lunch. “To celebrate, Birdie.”It had been, my modest estimate, a roaring success, my Gibraltar demonstration. In that I didn’t faint, didn’t wet my trousers, didn’t forget how to read.Louise Lane’s original version had been 47 minutes, a little longer. When Meg Gibraltar asked for me, Ms. Sloane and the Sisters cut the BB portion down to three minutes and change.Ms. Sloane moved the podium off to the right side of the auditorium stage and I could see the large.