. my life."Sally purred."I've got something else to tell you," she said. "Mum's found a man and I think they're pretty keen on each other." The one sh... introduced you to at Christmas?" Yes. He took her to a sheep fair and then she gave him supper and the supper has become a weekly fixture. He's taken her to the cinema two or three times and to a pub in Knaresborough." Sounds promising." She says he's very shy and looks embarrassed if she gives him a kiss on the cheek but he's come out of his. "But it must be a magnet to the dudes." You must be Vanessa. She told me about you, too." Let me guess. 'Vain, boy-crazy, and plays a mean third base.' Right?" Do you play ball? I used to play ball." Soft ball," Vanessa nodded. "Shavon thinks I'm a tomboy." I played first base." Why did you quit?" It got in the way of my job, I guess. And it wore me out."They sat and talked very naturally. Laura had no trouble liking Vanessa very much. And Vanessa seemed to like her. Even though she was. "Becky bit down on her lower lip with concern in her eyes. She knew from his yelling last night that he had heard the dog. But she had hoped that he thought that the dog was downstairs, not above his head."You must have been tired last night Joey," the twelve-year-old, Stephanie, responded. "Imagine, a dog on the roof."That brought out laughter from all the girls at the table, and a grateful sigh of relief from Becky. Joey just hunched his shoulders and assumed that he must have been dreaming. ’ Someone began to shake her, hard and deliberate. ‘Mira! Mira! Mira!’ Her name a chant in this unfamiliar voice. She finally opened her eyes only to find that she couldn’t see. She could feel air on her eye balls but couldn’t see a thing. ‘I’m calling 911,’ the voice again. ‘No the fuck you aren’t, have you listened at all to what I just told y’all? I’m in deep shit, Mira’s ass is, too. Allen who is this kid, anyway?’ ‘Montana, you’ve met Mint at least six times,’ Allen said. ‘He has, but he.