'Oh, I'll use a condom, '" she mimicked again.I really don't think Mom was enjoying this but it seemed like it at the time. She'd warned me against th... dangerous game I was playing. I refused to listen and now Mom was getting her digs in."I didn't mean to get anyone pregnant, Mom. Honest!" Boy! That excuse wasn't even good enough to be called lame.Mom sneered at me. "You know, you remind me of those news stories about the gang members who fire loaded weapons into a crowd and then they claim. On the other side, I could see Mary, Andy, my family and thousands of other people with unknown or indistinguishable faces. They were naked as they milled around in a dazed and confused way. They could not see me.Then, on my side, Santa Claus came walking towards me. He was dressed like Santa, black boots, white beard and all, except his red suit was dirty and torn. His face looked worn, exhausted, like a soldier after a long and losing battle. He was leading a huge dog on a steel chain leash.. I did not want a chance for Jeremy to see him. “Fine, but I will get as close as I can,” Jeff said sounding nervous. “I’ll see you at three. I have to go,” I told him as calm as I could. “Three it is. Be careful Anna,” he said as he hung up. I returned to class calmer, but still nervous about Jeremy. The rest of the day, I watched for him and only saw him a few times. At lunch, I chose to stay in the library and thumbed through a book I did not know just to avoid him. When I was finally in my. On the way home, he noticed that Clarisa had left a dainty linen handkerchief underneath a few of the top apples in the basket, just barely in sight. He ran back at once to return it to her, but could no longer find the gate that he had used earlier and his cries to her over the wall were not returned. He placed her handkerchief, which had a most pleasant and delightful scent to it, into his pocket and returned home just after sunset with the apples. He received more cuffs and many harsh words.