She wanted to scream "Yes, please!" but embarrassed, she only nodded. "Fine" said Leslie, "Thank you for your invitation, I loved to see you again. I ...ick you up tomorrow at ten". The rest of her party disappeared mostly in a haze. She switched to drinking water. Danced more, saw all guest out. Very tired and excited she crashed out. Just enough energy to set the alarm clock. Tomorrow she would shower. She was grown up now, could decide herself when she would want to shower.Soon a weird dream,. See you in six to eight. Speedracer out”“Grandstand out.”Lucy looked at me confused, Emily with placid acceptance. Lucy asked, “What was all that about?”Emily stepped in. “I asked him if he could reach anyone in Argyle. He asked his old EMS buddy to call on short wave, and see if he could talk to anybody there, and see how my family is doing. In the morning, once we stop for the day, he’ll call us with any update.”Lucy was confused, still. “Who’s ‘Echo Lima”? And what precious cargo? And, what. C U Monday @ practice. Peace.”Tim thought to himself, “Well, at least that wasn’t the party I was gonna go to.”He went ahead with his plan to go to the bathroom and, before reaching the door, he heard his mother’s house shoes clapping on the floor of the kitchen. She was probably prepping Sunday breakfast. She liked having a sit-down meal Sunday mornings since the family did not go to church.Juanita was the religious person in the family. She watched the morning services on TV every day while. He’s kind of a goofball and hadn’t much success with the ladies. He heard about an area of the woods off of the highway where guys gather and can get some relief.Nervous, Connor was nonetheless horny enough to try. He drove there, walked into the woods, and waited. Nothing was happening. No one was there. He walked around for around twenty minutes when a middle-aged man in jeans and a sweatshirt walked by him.“Evening, son,” he spoke, eyeing Connor up and down. “I gotta take a leak.”He walked.