He realized it must have been snowing, which always quieted traffic noise.He looked around the room, taking inventory of his earthly belongings. Becau...e he had always lived alone, he had never needed much. Now in his middle age, he felt a vagrant wistfulness about the things he’d never owned, the places he’d never gone, the people he’d never known, and the things he’d never done.The dream had left him shaken, and he tried to leave it in his bed, choosing to get up quickly instead of lingering. "What if they don't like us?" Then we're right back here," Mark said. "Like the woman said. It can't hurt, right?" I dunno," I sighed. "It might." What?" Chris reached for me, stroking my thigh. "Like they're gonna say you're ugly, Steph? Get real." What?" I made a face at him. "I just don't want to count on anything, you know? We're already buying a farm and we haven't even gotten off the bed." Nah, we know, Steph," Mark said. "It's just talk." Yeah, but we don't even know what we're doing," I. These thoughts were still running through the confused young girl's head as she approached the dormitory where she and Penny lived with some twenty other girls, a small wooden building in a eucalyptus grove. To get to her room it was necessary to go around to the back of the building. She and Penny had been lucky enough to get the most secluded room in the dorm. Not only did they have a private entrance but the whole back wall of the room was made up of sliding glass doors that opened out onto. But if she hadn't, we might actually not be friends anymore. Over a stupid candy bar." Well I'm not just a candy bar, Brooke." No you're not. You're a boyfriend. Girls are a little more possessive about those."Monday was tense. There was something going on between my two girlfriends and while they were polite to each other, they weren't as friendly as usual at school.But once we got to Cassidy's house in the afternoon, the girls and I got down to business in a hurry. Since she'd had me all.