Lexie was thrilled with her new figure. She blossomed later than most young girls. She liked when she was walking around in the neighborhood when ca...s honked and paid her attention. She liked when she was near a construction site where the men would whistle and call her cute names.She liked when the garbage men blew their horns at her. Lexie was loving the attention she was gaining with her newly developed body. She was getting asked out on more dates and was happier than a clam.She loved. Rick caught her alone (I would later learn) soon after mom's conversation with me. Rachel was fifteen and Rick was eighteen.It was the first time I ever heard the reference to losing someone's cherry, like Rachel did with Rick. But apparently, it wasn't that bad after all because Rachel began to come by regularly and do it with Rick. It lasted a year until he went into the Army.Just then, between my reaching my own puberty and what I heard in the schoolyards, I understood what the big. And could see the curve of her breast under her shirt. When we got to a small park that was a block away from her flat, she suggested we sit down on a bench. As I agreed I had that peculiar hyper-awareness you get when you talk as normal, but know something has changed. Even for us this was intimate in a new way. I joked that if I had played my cards right I could now be with one of the women at the club.She said that was unsurprising, since I was irresistible.There was a pause, a moment when I. I had to agree, and I would need to obtain hides and skins, and trade for spear points and arrows. Once I mastered the use of my boy's bow, I would need to become adroit in the mastery of a hunting bow, and in the skills of tracking and stalking which these peoples trained for from their childhood. Dora was surprised that I had the two deerskins, indicating some ability to provide, while showing little to no skill in the activities of the hunter. Her brother, Ko da co, who I had wrestled with,.